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Echo and Narcissus is a painting dating from 1903 by John William Waterhouse. It illustrates the poem Echo and Narcissus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.John William Waterhouse (1847–1917) was an English painter who because of his style and themes has been classified as a Pre-Raphaelite but is more accurately described as a Neo-Classical painter. He painted over 200 works mainly in the genres of classical mythology and of historical or literary subjects.