The head of a boy looking up towards Christ. Stipple print by M.A. Bourlier, 1813, after H.J. Richter.

The head of the boy in Richter's painting who stands behind the blind man and supports him. "Richter was a pioneer in painting from nature, in both practice and theory. In 1812 he painted the oil Christ giving sight to the blind, in bright sunlight on the roof of his house in Newman Street; the work was purchased by the trustees of the British Institution for 500 guineas and later presented to the New Church, Greenwich, completed in 1825, where it was installed as an altarpiece. A second version, attempting to improve on its truth to nature, was exhibited four years later."--Oxford dictionary of national biography