This is the second of the hunting nymphs ordered by Queen Victoria from Richard Wyatt as gifts for her husband. One of John Gibson's letters to the queen's dresser Miss Skerrett about work being undertaken by sculptors in Rome reveals Wyatt's modest character. At the end of 1847 Gibson wrote that Wyatt had just finished the model of 

A statue of a young Huntress holding up a dead hare & restraining her dog with the other. It is beautiful & excellent & would do honor to any sculptor in Europe. I requested a drawing of it to send but he said 'no, for I have done two works for Her Majesty already it would appear greedy & pushing on my part to send another drawing'. 

Gibson reported that he had 'insisted upon his compliance with my request' and the drawing was to be sent. The order was duly placed. The statue was finished by the British sculptors living in Rome, John Gibson and Benjamin Edward Spence, after Wyatt’s death in 1850.
It was intended to stand in the Billiard Room of the Pavilion at Osborne and was placed on a square Siena marble pedestal with a 'green base and Sicilian moulding'. There is no evidence that Queen Victoria or Prince Albert specified the appearance of the subject. 

Text adapted from Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty The King (2025).