Elijah in Wilderness by Lord Frederic Leighton Ceramic Tree Decoration

Elijah in the Wilderness (1878) by Lord Frederic Leighton is a vintage Victorian Era fine art religious portrait painting. The prophet Elijah is asleep in the wilderness and an angel from God is bringing him bread and water. Elijah is fleeing from Jezebel who is determined to kill him. About the artist: Lord Frederic Leighton was an English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter. His genre was Academicism, academic art is a style which practiced under the movements of Neoclassicism and Romanticism.