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Cromwell Protector of the Vaudois (1877) is a painting by Ford Madox Brown which depicts Oliver Cromwell in conversation with John Milton dictating a letter to Andrew Marvell protesting at the Piedmont Easter massacre (1655) an attack on the Vaudois (Waldenses) a persecuted Protestant sect in Piedmont northern Italy. It was Brown’s second Cromwell painting following Cromwell on his Farm (1875).
