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.
Ernest Brown, employed at the Leicester Galleries in 1909, commissioned a set of 28 watercolour illustrations depicting Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Fortescue-Brickdale completed these paintings within two years.