Capability Brown

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Lancelot Brown (c.1715(16)-1783), known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape artist. He is remembered as "England's greatest gardener".

Capability Brown landscaped Blenheim Palace.

 

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Stowe, Buckinghamshire was Capability Brown's first major commission.

 

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How do you spot a Capability Brown landscape garden?

 

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Capability Brown designed at Harewood House.

 

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In Capability Brown's landscaping, there is the absence of flowers. They would grow in the kitchen garden and stay within a walled enclosure.

 

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Bowood House near Chippenham, England is the home of the Marquis and Marchioness of Landsdowne.
The landscape around Bowood House was designed by Capability Brown.

The Bowood private Walled Garden

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Bowood House is in Calne, Wiltshire, England. Capability Brown landscaped the park in 1762 through to 1768.

 

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Capability Brown redesigned the landscape at Chatsworth in Derbyshire for the 4th Duke of Devonshire between the late 1750s and 1765.

 

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It took Capability Brown 25 years to complete the commission of Burghley House.

The Sculpture Garden
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Was Lancelot Capability Brown a great landscape designer?

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Sheffield Park Garden is in East Sussex, England.
These gardens were layed out by Capabilty Brown in 1769.
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Another grand house Justice Hall with landscaping by Capability Brown

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Capability Brown landscaped gardens at Alnwick Castle

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Capability Brown landscaping: Staffordshire - Weston Park

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