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''A Mermaid'' is a 1900
oil painting Oil painting is a painting method involving the procedure of painting with pigments combined with a drying oil as the Binder (material), binder. It has been the most common technique for artistic painting on canvas, wood panel, or oil on coppe ...
by the British
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John William Waterhouse John William Waterhouse (baptised 6 April 184910 February 1917) was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His paintings are known for ...
. It was inspired by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (; 6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of ...
's 1830 poem ''The Mermaid''. He produced an
oil sketch An oil sketch or oil study is an artwork made primarily in oil paint in preparation for a larger, finished work. Originally these were created as preparatory studies or modelli, especially so as to gain approval for the design of a larger commiss ...
for the work in 1892. Waterhouse presented it to the
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at his
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, having been elected to full membership five years earlier. It was displayed at the academy's Summer Exhibition of 1901 at
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.https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/a-mermaid


See also

*
List of paintings by John William Waterhouse This is a list of the paintings by the British Pre-Raphaelite artist John William Waterhouse. 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s See also

* List of Pre-Raphaelite paintings {{Lists of paintings Paintings by John William Waterhouse, ...


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Bibliography

* Cavallaro, Dani. ''J.W. Waterhouse and the Magic of Color''. McFarland, 2017. * Prettejohn, Elizabeth. ''J.W. Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite''. Royal Academy of Arts, 2008. Paintings by John William Waterhouse 1900 paintings Mermaids in art Oil on canvas paintings Nude paintings of women Paintings in the Royal Academy Paintings in London Seashells in art {{20C-painting-stub