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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 lakes.
Brown, Lancelot 'Capability'. 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. This gave Lancelot Brown the opportunity of working with William ...
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 ...
Lancelot Brown. Between c.1760 and c.1764 Lancelot Brown (1716-1783) and his foreman Michael Millican oversaw an extensive programme of earth moving, drainage, levelling and tree planting in the park. Millican was the ‘man on the ground’ supervising the land forming, drainage and turfing while Brown made visits to inspect and advise. In his ...
in 1749, the scene was set for Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown to take up the mantle of landscape design. 10. Rise to Dominance. Brown’s rise to dominance over the following decades was unprecedented. His reach across the country cannot be denied; he probably worked at well over 200 sites, from . Alnwick in Northumberland to Ugbrooke in Devon,
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.
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.
