[1] Due to a lack of commercial success, Lewis turned to writing, which became his main means of expression from the 1920s.

[2] Lewis had made a three-quarter-length portrait of a standing Pound which was exhibited in 1919 but is lost.

In the 1920s, Lewis was critical of Pound's writings, but eventually decided to celebrate him with another portrait, which he finished in 1939.

[1] The portrait of Pound shows the poet leaning back in a chair with closed eyes.

[1] The painter Walter Sickert saw the painting in 1939 and sent a telegram to Lewis where he declared him the greatest portraitist of all time.