Before embarking on his final career as a designer and writer, Morris completed one oil painting, a portrait of his future wife Jane Burden as 'La Belle Iseult' (Tate Gallery, London), and began another, also on the Arthurian theme of Tristram and Iseult. The two or three major figures against a background, perhaps including the mast and rigging of a ship, suggest a possible treatment of the episode in Malory's 'Mort d'Arthur' in which Tristram accompanies Iseult on the voyage to Cornwall, where she is to marry King Mark.