Excerpt from The Life of John Milton: Englishman; Partly in His Own Words
Probably the description is strongly coloured by the poet's recollection of his own childhood. At the time when the portrait was painted the boy's tutor was Thomas Young, a Scotsman, graduate of St. Andrew's, then a curate in London, afterwards to be eminent among the Puritan clergy. Milton has' left on record his reverence and gratitude towards Young, who seems to have continued his oversight of the boy's supplementary studies after he became a pupil of St. Paul's School in St. Paul's Churchyard in 1619 or 1620.
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