Who is this? What phrase owes its etymology to a feature of this painting?Update: Many correctly identified the person but no one got the phrase I am looking for. It is not a nickname of the man in the painting. Rather, the phrase is derived from a feature of this and other paintings of this man and in fact was uttered by him in connection with his portraits. It is now idiomatically used in all kinds of situations (and not just in reference to him).
Answer: The person is Oliver Cromwell as was correctly identified by Matti Tapaninen, Pavan, Nihar, anon, Rithwik, Krithi, Hirak, Adi and DrDate. Cromwell wanted his portraits to not cover up his facial blemishes and was known to have instructed a painter to paint his face as it is "warts and all". This phrase has now come to mean taking something as a whole and not concealing the unattractive parts. Adi, Matti Tapaninen, Pavan and DrDate got the etymology right as well. Well done all.
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Oliver Cromwell. Drawn and engraved in aquatinta.
Oliver Cromwell. "Old Ironsides"
Oliver Cromwell, by Sam Cooper
Oliver chromwell / kit kat rithwik
Oliver chromwell / kit kat rithwik
White collar? (or, french beard?)
Oliver Cromwell,English soldier, statesman, and leader of the Puritan revolution.Etymology:"God's Englishman"
Krithi
Cromwell. Cooper's miniature also caused Cromwell to be called - Copper Nose
cromwell ... warts and all
The phrase is "Warts and all".
warts and all.
Took me quite some time to figure out the person in the painting...
Oliver Cromwell
It is believed that Cromwell's comment urging the artist to paint him 'pimples warts & every thing as you see me' related to this portrait, leading to the phrase "Warts and all"
Knight in shining armor?
Half and Half ?
Half and Half ?
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