The trope name comes from Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658 who in an attempt to avoid this trope once told an artist to paint a portrait of him warts and all.

Who said warts and all. It is said to have originated in the instructions given by Oliver Cromwell ¹ to the painter Peter Lely ² to portray him as he truly was without concealing his blemishes. Although most of the people purchasing portraits. Warts And All Warts and All A Fairy Tale Melissa McShane Introduction.

Official portraits were commonly done with the flaws in a persons appearance corrected by the artist. The phrase warts and all entered the language forever but the artist ordered by Oliver Cromwell to paint the knobbly truth has almost been forgotten something gallery owner Philip Mould. I n Hollywood in the 1920s director Marshall Neilan gave this warning to a studio workman whose foot was poised over a spider.

Warts and all - 1948 Volkswagen Built for occupying Allied forces a 60-year-old VW that still takes to the highway By Dave LaChance from July 2008 issue of Hemmings Sports and Exotics. From Lives of Eminent British Statesmen 1838 by John Forster. The phrase warts and all means including features or qualities that are not appealing or attractive.

I love my church - warts and all Stephen Colbert breaks character to discuss his faith. Paint me warts and all he famously said or I wont pay you a farthing for it I have heard that Abraham Lincoln quoted him in 1860 ordering the artist to flatter me not. But it does not diminish the courage the honesty and assiduousness with which Mr.

He wanted no flattery to be involved in the portrait. Without sparing any literal or figurative blemishes. Aquino has embraced his destiny and in the process restored a peoples forbearance for their countrys institutions and faith in their democracy warts and all.

In Cromwells words he instructed the artist to paint him warts and all. When Sir Peter Lely portrait painter to the executed King Charles I was brought before Cromwell therefore he was supposedly told. In stark contrast to the boastful leadership style with which Israel has become familiar in.