 After prep school, Rees-Mogg entered Eton College, where he was described in a school report as a "particularly dogmatic" Thatcherite.Upon leaving Eton, he had his portrait painted by Paul Branson RP for the Eton College Collections, which was later put on display during the "Faces of 1993" Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition.Rees-Mogg read History at Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated with an upper second-class honours degree in 1991.