Samuel Cooper was regarded as the best portrait painter of his day,but his miniatures are now almost forgottenThe 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 hopes a unusual exhibition, and the first in 40 years devoted to the work of Samuel Cooper,will right."Cooper was a marvel – warts and all was his USP, an almost clinical portrayal of Homo sapiens, and the great topographer of the human face,and yet to many people the name means nothing," Mould said.
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Source: theguardian.com