Movie Details
Theatrical Release:September 25th, 1921
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Triart Picture Company
The Beggar Maid (1921)
Audience Score
The painter BurneJones and his famed painting The Beggar Maid are depicted in this speculative drama about the creation of the painting BurneJones plays matchmaker for a young British nobleman who has fallen in love with a servant girl on his estate The artist shows that love can thrive between members of different classes by depicting on canvas a picture from Tennysons poem about the love of King Cophetua for a beggar maid As he relates the story of the poem in words and through his painting the young earl sees the application to his own situation
