This painter of genre, literary and historical subjects entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1848. He had already won the Silver Medal of the Society of Arts (1845) and begun to show at the Academy (1846), where he continued to exhibit until 1889. He also supported the British Institution, the Society of British Artists and others. 'The characteristics of Mr Wyburd's art', wrote James Dafforne in the Art Journal, 'are, principally, a perfect realisation of female beauty, an attractive manner in setting out his figures, and a refinement of finish which is sometimes carried almost to excess' (1877 vol., p.140).

Although he never seems to have travelled further than north Italy (with the landscape painter George E. Hering in 1858), he often painted Eastern subjects of a fashionable romantic kind, inevitably drawing at least some of his inspiration from Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh. The present example is a small version of a picture exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856.

Wyburd's painting Immortelles (1859) was sold in these Rooms on 5 March 1993, lot 112.