J.R. Weguelin - "The Mermaid of Zennor"

Artist: John Reinhart Weguelin (All)

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J.R. Weguelin - The Mermaid of Zennor Comic Art

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Artwork Details

Title:	J.R. Weguelin - "The Mermaid of Zennor"
Artist:	John Reinhart Weguelin (All)
Media Type:	Paint - Watercolor
Art Type:	Prelim
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	357
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	9/23/2023
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Description

We dropped off this piece a few months ago with The Conservation Center in Chicago, and just picked it up again earlier this week. By artist John Reinhard Weguelin, it's one of the earliest pieces we own. It's a preliminary for his painting, "The Mermaid of Zennor", painted in 1900, and is very similar to the finished piece.

According to the source of all knowledge, Wikipedia, "The painting was Inspired by medieval legend of a mermaid who lived at Pendour Cove, near Zennor, Cornwall, about whom various stories are told. The young man in the picture is Matthew Trewhell, a chorister of St. Senara's church in Zennor, with whose voice the mermaid was besotted. According to legend, he fell in love with the mermaid and went to share her watery home, although his voice can still be heard at Pendour Cove when he is singing."

The earliest appearance I'm aware of for the finished piece is in the November 1904 issue of "The International Studio: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Fine & Applied Art".

Interestingly, pasted on the back of the stretcher bars of this prelim is a paper label relating to some earlier restoration, reading "Professor PAUL H. HUBNER Konservator und Restaurator". At one point, Professor Hubner was Curator of the Municipal Collections of Freiburg.

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Last Login:	January 2026
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Rick W
Member Since 2017

Posted on 9/23/2023

Timeless beauty!

Malcolm Bourne
Member Since 2005

Posted on 10/3/2023

Such beautiful art! Congratulations!!

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