Edwin Roscoe Mullins (1848-1907) was born in London, but studied both in London and in Munich, sharing a studio with Onslow Ford in Munich. He made his professional debut in Vienna and Munich in 1872, gaining medals for his work. Though he executed many portrait busts, Mullins specialised particualrly in ideal statuettes and decorative architectural work. Mullins exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy, and also at the Grosvenor and New Galleries. The present nude combines the ideal and the realist, and belongs to a series of such figures, for example Innocence of 1876; Rest of 1881; Marguerite of 1883 and Love's Token of 1891.