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Peter Lely Portrait, 1640s - also known as the 'Warts and all Portrait'
This is the most famous portrait of Cromwell, as he instructed Lely to paint him 'warts and all' to show him as an honest, modest person without any arrogance, in contrast to Charles I, who was always painted in a very complementary manner.
('Mr Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all the roughness, pimples, warts and everything, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.')
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