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Who said warts and all. I desire you would use all your skill to paint your picture truly like me but remark all these roughness pimples warts and everything as you see me. The Frog Prince Ive had a soft spot for this story since I was young despite the fact that the princess is a spoiled brat. The phrase is attributed to Englands Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell who ordered Sir John Lely the artist painting his portrait not to flatter him but to paint him with any and all physical imperfections.

In Cromwells words he instructed the artist to paint him warts and all. I n Hollywood in the 1920s director Marshall Neilan gave this warning to a studio workman whose foot was poised over a spider. 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.

Otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it. This phrase warts and all is said to derive from Oliver Cromwells instructions to the painter Sir Peter Lely when commissioning a painting. Once had a conversation with the President for whom he worked John Kennedy in which JFK blasted President Eisenhower his immediate predecessor for claiming he had never made a mistake while in office.

Aries book warts and all 19 Jan 2021 Share. He wanted no flattery to be involved in the portrait. When Oliver Cromwell sat for the official portrait that would portray his appearance to future generations he was said to have instructed the artist to paint him just as he saw him.

I love my church - warts and all Stephen Colbert breaks character to discuss his faith. 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. Oliver Cromwell - warts and all learning from the Old Masters Oliver Cromwell famously insisted on being depicted warts and all.

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. 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. Te Awamutu author Arie Paton reads her new book Darcy the Brave with the boy who inspired it Darcy Jenkins.