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Lancelot Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783), [1] 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. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th-century artists to be ...
28 de dic. de 2016 · In the 18th century, Capability Brown was immensely fashionable. He was the person that you needed to have on your estate and working with you if you were ever going to hold your head up in society. He worked on what we think is about 250 landscapes and about 150 of them are still worth seeing today.
5 de abr. de 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 Britain ...
His private life also flourished whilst he was at Stowe. In 1744 he married Bridget Wayet, originally from Boston in Lincolnshire. The couple went on to have seven children and live in relative comfort due to his increasing fame and fortune. By 1768 Brown acquired a manor house, Fenstanton, in East Anglia which he bought from Lord Northampton.
As of this year, precisely 216 English estate grounds—including those of Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, and Highclere Castle (seen in Downton Abbey)—have been definitively established as Brown’s work, and hundreds more properties have been attributed to him with varying degrees of certainty.
The Importance of Blenheim Palace for Capability Brown Read about how Lancelot 'Capability' Brown redesigned the entire 2,000 acres of Gardens and Parkland. Discover the life of Capability Brown, the huge changes he implemented at Blenheim Palace and how he went about the mammoth task of undertaking them!
29 de abr. de 2019 · April 29, 2019. View over the historic Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, England. The house sits in parkland laid out by Capability Brown. Credit: VisitEngland/Rich J Jones. Capability Brown left an extensive legacy as he swathed his way through more than 150 gardens of the aristocracy in the mid-18th century, introducing a brand new ‘natural’ style.
