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Join the roomKing Cophetua and the Beggar Maid is an 1869 history painting by the Irish artist Daniel Maclise. It depicts a scene inspired by folk song The King and the Beggar-maid about the monarch Cophetua and his love for a beautiful beggar girl who he decides to make his queen. The story is referenced in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet but Maclise drew heavily on the 1833 poem by Alfred Tennyson.
Not who you're looking for? Others named King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid: painting by Edward Burne-Jones (1884)
