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Lancelot 'Capability' Brown worked for Viscount Cobham as head gardener at Stowe from 1741 to 1751. His work there and the contacts he made launched his career. Early in his career Capability Brown created the magnificent Grecian Valley at Stowe, part of Viscount Cobham’s ambitious landscape of classical buildings, rolling lawns and beautiful ...
Brown, Lancelot [known as Capability Brown] ( bap. 1716, d. 1783 ), landscape gardener and architect, was baptized on 30 August 1716 at St Wilfrid's Church, Kirkharle, Northumberland, the fifth of the six children of William Brown (1676–1720), a yeoman farmer and estate steward, and his wife, Ursula Hall (c.1678–1742), daughter of John Hall of Girsonfield, Northumberland. Two of their ...
Brown, Lancelot 'Capability'. Born - Died : 1716 - 1783. Lancelot Brown is the most famous English landscape designer. Lancelot Brown was born in Northumberland and served an apprenticeship with Sir William Lorraine. Brown moved to Buckinghamshire in 1739 and was employed by Lord Cobham at Stowe in 1741.
Brown's work at Blenheim. It was the 4th Duke of Marlborough who commissioned Capability Brown in 1763 to redesign the Park. The Grand Bridge had been the subject of more than a few critical remarks previously due to the rather underwhelming streams that ran underneath it. The famous 18th century poet Alexander Pope joked that minnows in the ...
Brown, Lancelot (1715/16–83) (1716–83),landscape architect, known as ‘Capability’ Brown because he was reputed to tell patrons that their estates had ‘great capabilities’. His creations include the lake at Blenheim and the park at Chatsworth. He was a key figure in the development of the picturesque and his landscapes were ...
18 de may. de 2018 · Brown, Lancelot. Brown, Lancelot called Capability (1716–83). Born in Northum., he was one of the most influential English landscape-architects who has ever lived, as well as an architect. He became head-gardener at Stowe, Bucks., in 1741, where, with Bridgeman and William Kent, he realized the ‘naturalization’ of the park.
Lancelot Brown (1715-1783) más conocido como “ Capability ” Brown, apodo con el que se autodeterminó, al venderle sus proyectos a los respectivos clientes, en alusión de la gran capacidad de la que disponía. Paisajista y arquitecto británico, considerado el padre de la jardinería paisajista inglesa y recordado como el mejor jardinero ...
