Portrait of a Young Scholar

About Portrait of a Young Scholar

The boy depicted by Jan van Scorel in this painting is twelve years old. His age is given at top right: 'AETATIS 12'; the date 1531 is given at bottom left. He is a pupil of the Latin school, the predecessor of the current grammar school. At this school, a large part of the knowledge of Latin was taught by learning classical sayings by heart.