Related Paintings of skagen museum :. | Portrait of a Child of the Harmon Family | Portrait of a young girl as Diana | fra den brondumske spisesal | Portrait of Don Manuel Romero de Terreros y | WLA brooklynmuseum Pierre Van Cortlandt ca | Related Artists: Ludwig Passini Austrian, 1832-1903 Luis jimenez aranda Spanish Impressionist Painter, 1845-1928 Joseph-Noel Sylvestre (1847-1926) was a French artist, notable for his studies of classic scenes from antiquity. He was born in Beziers in South-West France on 24 June 1847, training as an artist first in Toulouse under Thomas Couture, then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under Alexandre Cabanel. He was an exponent of the romantic Academic art style, also known as art pompier (fireman's art), examples of which are the Death of Seneca (1875), The Gaul Ducar decapitates the Roman general Flaminus at the Battle of Trasimene (1882), The Sack of Rome by the barbarians in 410 (1890) and François Rude working on the Arc de Triomphe (1893).