This painting is inspired by a scene from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The siren’s expression is inquisitive, but it’s clear that she’s compassionate. The siren looks down on a drowning sailor and is clearly a charmer. It was his belated Royal Academy Diploma Picture, which he won in 1895. The Siren is another one of Waterhouse’s most famous works. This painting is known as a’mermaid’ because she is clearly a harpist who charms fish. His works often feature ladies by the water, and one of his most famous works is The Charmer, which depicts a young lady playing the harp in the water. The story was first told by Hans Christian Andersen, and Waterhouse’s 1872 painting is considered one of his most popular paintings. However, some people think that the pearls were formed from the tears of a sailor who drowned.Ī Mermaid is one of the most famous mermaid paintings in the world. As such, Waterhouse focused on how to depict a lone lyric’mermaid’ with a shell filled with pearls. Traditionally, mermaids were sirens who lured sailors to their doom, and it was believed that they were unable to live in the human world.

Waterhouse was interested in the darker mythology of the mermaid, despite the fact that she was a creature of the water. 6 The Birth of Venus by SANDRO BOTSICELLI A Mermaid 1900 by John William Waterhouse

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