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The Fisherman and the Syren is an oil painting by Frederic Leighton, first exhibited in 1858. It is a composition of two small full-length figures, a mermaid clasping a fisherman round the neck. [1] The picture is in the collection of the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
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According to the painter himself, the work depicts a fisherman and his two children, and they are supposed to personify poverty. According to other symbolists, the painting was supposed to be an allegory of man's fate or to represent faith in God and the rebirth of life. For others, the figure of the fisherman is an allegory of Jesus Christ. [3]
The fisherman in the sculpture was modeled after Capt. Clayton Morrissey, a prominent Gloucester fisherman, once the captain of the Effie M. Morrissey. [2] The stone was purposely sculpted with a rough finish to make the fisherman look rugged. Craske posed the fisherman to look as if he was facing a windstorm and was headed toward dangerous rocks.
The fisherman kindly releases it. When his wife hears the story, she says he ought to have had the fish grant him a wish. She insists that he go back and ask the flounder to grant her wish for a nicer house. The fisherman reluctantly returns to the shore but is uneasy when he finds that the sea seems to become turbid, as it was so clear before.
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