Hagar offering Water to her Son, Ishmael, in the Desert

Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, PRA (Plymouth 1793-Pisa 1865). Oil painting on canvas, Hagar offering Water to her Son, Ishmael, in the Desert by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, PRA (Plymouth 1793-Pisa 1865), signed and dated, bottom right: C. E. Eastlake 1842. A scene from Genesis XXI 9-21. According to the biblical story, Hagar was the Egyptian servant of Sarah, Abraham’s wife. Abraham had a child, Ishmael, by Hagar but when Sarah miraculously gave birth to Isaac, she asked Abraham to banish Hagar with her son to the desert. When they ran out of food and water they sat down and the mother could not bear to look at her child dying but an Angel appeared to her telling her he would survive to become the father of a great nation, the Ishmaelites. She then found a source of water. A later horizontal version of the same subject that Eastlake did for his RA diploma piece in 1830. Borrowdale, Cumbria