The Siren is a painting by John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse was an English painter known for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He worked several decades after the breakup of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which had seen its heydey in the mid-nineteenth century, leading him to have gained the moniker of "the modern Pre-Raphaelite"...

. 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 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