JOHN MILTON

(1608-1674).

PORTRAITS OF MILTON.

Milton at the Age of Ten.-The earliest known portrait of Milton is one painted by Cornelius Janssen when the poet was only ten years old. Janssen came from Leyden to England in 1618, and this picture must have been one of the first that he painted after his arrival. It is the face of a solid, chubby, sweet, predestined-Puritan cherub. Janssen came over to paint the portraits of James I. and his family, and he made many pictures of the nobility and of people in the court circle. ... The portrait he made was bought for twenty guineas of the executors of Milton's widow by C. Stanhope. At the sale of the effects of this Mr. Stanhope it was bought by T. Hollis, Esq., for whose "Memoirs" Cipriani engraved it. The child is in a striped jacket, with a lace collar.-CLARENCE COOK: Scribner's Magazine, vol. xi.

Milton at the Age of Twenty-one.—This is a portrait of the poet when a student at Cambridge. It is not known who painted it.

Milton in Advanced Life.-There are three portraits of the poet, taken when he was well advanced in years—one by Faithorne, one by Robert White, and an anonymous one. These are in crayon, and well known through numerous engravings. That by Faithorne, taken about 1670, is the best. It was on seeing this portrait, in 1725, that Deborah, Milton's youngest daughter, exclaimed, "Oh Lord! that is the picture of my father!" and stroking the hair, added, "Just so my father wore his hair." Professor Mas