The Siren (Waterhouse painting)
- The Siren (Waterhouse painting)
. The painting depicts a siren sitting at the edge of a cliff, harp in hand and staring down a man floating in water, who in turn is staring up at her.
According to the [http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?recordid=3 John William Waterhouse website] , this picture was painted in 1900 and is now in a private collection. The estimated sale price for the painting in 2003 was one million pounds. [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/11/03/basir03.xml]
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