Roux Antoine

Roux Antoine’s studio looked like a ship’s deck—ropes coiled in corners, salt stains on the walls, and the smell of turpentine mixed with fish. He painted Greek merchant ships so precisely you could count the rigging, but his real trick was hiding the drama in small details: a shadow under a sail, the way light hits a copper kettle on deck. Where to start? Tap into his 1820 oil *Το πλοίο "Ουέλιγκτον" του Ι. Ορλάνδου*—it’s the one with the tiny Greek flag fluttering above the hull, a quiet monument to a moment in time.