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The King and the Beggar Maid by Edmund Blair Leighton
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The King and the Beggar Maid by Edmund Blair Leighton
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833–1898)
Date: 1884
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Description
This work is based on Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘The Beggar Maid’. King Cophetua of Ethiopia falls in love with Penelophon, a young woman he sees begging for money. They marry, and she becomes Queen. At the time, art critics praised this work for its technical skill and for the message that love is more important than wealth and power. Through this painting and its reproduction as a print, Edward Burne-Jones became seen in Europe as the most important symbolist painter of his generation.
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833–1898)
Date: 1884
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Description
This work is based on Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘The Beggar Maid’. King Cophetua of Ethiopia falls in love with Penelophon, a young woman he sees begging for money. They marry, and she becomes Queen. At the time, art critics praised this work for its technical skill and for the message that love is more important than wealth and power. Through this painting and its reproduction as a print, Edward Burne-Jones became seen in Europe as the most important symbolist painter of his generation.
Edmund Leighton - The King and the Beggar-maid - (1898)
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King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (English, 1833–1898)
Date: 1884
Medium: Oil paint on canvas
Collection: Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
Description
This work is based on Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘The Beggar Maid’. King Cophetua of Ethiopia falls in love with Penelophon, a young woman he sees begging for money. They marry, and she becomes Queen. At the time, art critics praised this work for its technical skill and for the message that love is more important than wealth and power. Through this painting and its reproduction as a print, Edward Burne-Jones became seen in Europe as the most important symbolist painter of his generation.
Albert Pinkham Ryder - King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid. N.d.