In 1909, Ernest Brown, of the Leicester Galleries, commissioned a series of 28 watercolour illustrations to Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which Fortescue-Brickdale painted over two years.
In 1909, Ernest Brown, from the Leicester Galleries, ordered a series of 28 watercolour illustrations for Tennyson's Idylls of the King, which Fortescue-Brickdale executed over two years.