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Lot 153
* Lowth (Robert, 1710-1787). Portrait by an unidentified artist, late 18th century, oil on canvas, half-length, seated and with one hand placed upon a copy of his book ‘De sacra poesi Hebraeorum’ on the desk in front of him, a few scratches and marks, two tears including one with slight loss, both to background area away from the portrait upper left, 92 x 73cm, gilt frame. This portrait is not a copy of the portrait by Robert Edge Pine, c. 1777, held at New College, Oxford, after which an engraving by John Keyse Sherwin was made. Robert Lowth, Biblical Critic, Grammarian and Bishop of London, was born at Winchester on 27 November 1710. He made a name for himself as a young man through his composition of verses in both English and Latin. In June 1741 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, a post he held for ten years, during the course of which he delivered the thirty-four “Praelectiones de sacra poesi Hebraeorum” that were to make his name and were published in 1753. ‘In 1762 Lowth published ‘A Short Introduction to English Grammar’, in which he extolled the simplicity of the form and construction of the English language while remarking that it could still not rival the most ancient of languages, Hebrew, in this respect. Lowth intended his work to provide a succinct guide to grammar and to overcome imperfect or imprecise usage, even when found in the Authorized Version of the English Bible. It proved immensely popular in Great Britain and America and was published dozens of times during the 18th century alone; more than 34,000 copies had been printed by 1781’ (DNB). (1)
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