The Siren (Waterhouse painting)
The Siren is a painting by John William Waterhouse. The painting depicts a siren sitting at the edge of a cliff, lyre in hand, staring down at a shipwrecked sailor floating in water, who in turn is staring up at her. The picture was painted in 1900 and is now part of a private collection. The estimated sales price for the painting in 2003 was one million pounds.It was last sold in 2018 by Seymour Stein for about five million USD.