The place in this painting doesn’t exist anywhere except in my imagination. So it’s a bit of a fantasy painting really.
Mermaids, the seductive maidens of the sea, have been accompanied by tales of misfortune and disaster on the open sea. Their beauty is said to be able to lure ships off course and onto rocky shores and sailors to a watery demise.
While there is no evidence that mermaids exist outside folklore, reports of mermaid sightings continue to the present day.