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Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown was a grand designer, entrepreneur and salesman who became the UK's most famous landscape designer of the 18th century. His nickname came from his fondness for describing country estates as having great ‘capabilities’ for improvement. By persuading his clients he went on to work on multiple projects at a time.
Dec 28, 2016 · Capability Brown: the man who changed English landscapes forever. Published: 28 December 2016. Posted by: English Heritage. Category: History In-depth. If you were anyone in Georgian society, your garden would have been designed by Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
Apr 5, 2016 · Capability Brown Is the Landscape Designer Behind England’s Most Iconic Gardens. Innovative—and prolific—18th-century garden guru Capability Brown forever changed the face of Great...
Jan 11, 2021 · Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown is one of Britain’s most celebrated landscape architects. His natural eye for the ‘capabilities’ of an estate would develop a garden style now recognised as the quintessential English landscape. His work would be praised by Earls, paid for by Dukes and discussed by royalty across the world.
On August 30, 2016, we celebrate the tercentenary of the baptism (his actual birth date is uncertain) of an outstanding landscape gardener, Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, one of the pioneers and supreme practitioners of the “serpentine” style that gripped England in the mid to late 18th century.
Where to see ‘Capability’ Brown landscapes. The gothic temple and palladian bridge in the foreground at Stowe, Buckinghamshire | © National Trust Images/Ian Ward. Lose yourself in a landscape of serpentine rivers and Gothic follies, with sweeping drives and parkland fringed by trees….
May 24, 2016 · Lancelot “Capability” Brown was Britain’s most famous landscape gardener who changed the face of 18th-century English country estates, moving hills and creating flowing lakes and serpentine rivers. Juliet Rix explores his legacy…
Apr 29, 2019 · Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown was the first celebrity garden designer. In the 18th century he was the man who, for the first time, made gardening fashionable in all the right circles – and he was the top people’s top man, rising from lowly beginnings to become royal gardener to the young King George III in charge of Hampton Court.
‘Capability’ Brown has gone down in history as one of the best landscape gardeners of all time and it’s not hard to see why. Brown was responsible for not only a vast array of parklands and gardens but also shaped the way future gardeners would think about design.
