This panel of King David, with three other panels also decorated with figures of poets (Homer, Chaucer, and Dante), was made for windows in Silsden, a house in Yorkshire built for a manufacturer named Hastings. This was one of the first commissions given to Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., the firm that William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others had co-founded in 1861 to revive the arts and crafts of the pre-Renaissance era (which would subsequently develop into the more successful Morris & Co in 1875). Burne-Jones designed the figures and Morris designed the daisy and forget-me-not plants for the rectangular quarries forming the background.
