The best biblical artist you never heard of, Andrei Nikolaevich Mironov was born in 1975 (the same year I entered the convent!), but only started exhibiting his art in 2007. That makes his 2009 painting, "Christ and the Pauper. Christ Heals the Blind Man" one of his earliest public works.
According to the writeup on his page in GallerySwarm, “Andrey attempts to illustrate, supplement and portray in tangible form the principles of Christianity.” Mironov has completed literally dozens of biblical scenes, and at times several versions of the same biblical event or story, most of these taken from the Gospels. The simplicity of Mironov's image and its narrow dimensions can give the impression of being on an heroic scale, but the oil painting is roughly half life size (100 X 55 cm, or 3.3 feet tall and 1.8 feet across).
As attested to in Scripture, Jesus healed any number of beggars who had lost their sight. That this is the man born blind (John 9) seems to be hinted at by the position of Jesus’ right hand, which could be holding the mud paste he had made with his spit to anoint the sightless eyes of the beggar. The man's left hand is still somewhat, perhaps habitually, open to receive alms (and what an alms!), but his face is fully lit, awaiting only for that light to penetrate his eyes.
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