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Brown's process as perfecting nature by "judicious manipulation of its components, adding a tree here or a concealed head of water there. His art attended to the formal potential of ground, water, trees and so gave to English landscape its ideal forms. The difficulty was that less capable imitators and less sophisticated spectators did not see nature perfected... they saw simply what they took to be nature."
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Brown remained at Stowe until 1750. He made the Grecian Valley at Stowe under William Kent's supervision. It is an abstract composition of landform and woodland. Lord Cobham let Brown take freelance work from his aristocratic friends, thus making him well known as a landscape gardener. As a proponent
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in East Anglia for £13,000 (equivalent to £2,180,000 in 2023) from Lord Northampton. This came with two manor houses, two villages and 2,668 acres of land. The property stayed in the family until it was sold in lots in 1870s and 1880s. Ownership of the property allowed him to stand for and serve
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His style of smooth undulating grass, which would run straight to the house, clumps, belts and scatterings of trees and his serpentine lakes formed by invisibly damming small rivers were a new style within the English landscape, a 'gardenless' form of landscape gardening, which swept away almost all
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author, declared that he hoped to die before Brown so that he could "see heaven before it was 'improved'." This was a typical statement reflecting the controversy about Brown's work, which has continued over the last 200 years. By contrast, a recent historian and author, Richard Bisgrove, described
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By the 1760s, he was earning on average £6,000 (equivalent to £1,036,000 in 2023) a year, usually £500 (equivalent to £86,300 in 2023) for one commission. As an accomplished rider he was able to work fast, taking only an hour or so on horseback to survey an estate and rough out an entire
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observed that Brown "fancied himself an architect", but Brown's work as an architect is overshadowed by his great reputation as a designer of landscapes. Repton was bound to add: "he was inferior to none in what related to the comfort, convenience, taste and propriety of design, in the several
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Criticism of his style, both in his own day and subsequently, mostly centres on the claim that "he created 'identikit' landscapes with the main house in a sea of turf, some water, albeit often an impressive feature, and trees in clumps and shelterbelts", giving "a uniformity equating to
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Brown's reputation declined rapidly after his death, because the English landscape style did not convey the dramatic conflict and awesome power of wild nature. A reaction against the harmony and calmness of Brown's landscapes was inevitable; the landscapes lacked the
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but whose own designs have formal structure, accused Brown of "encouraging his wealthy clients to tear out their splendid formal gardens and replace them with his facile compositions of grass, tree clumps and rather shapeless pools and lakes."
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He designed more than 170 parks, many of which survive. He was nicknamed "Capability" because he would tell his clients that their property had "capability" for improvement. His influence was so great that the contributions to the
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Manor. He left an estate of approximately £40,000 (equivalent to £6,080,000 in 2023), which included property in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Lincolnshire. His eldest daughter Bridget married the architect
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published a large amount of new research on Brown's work and held over 500 events across Britain as part of the celebrations. Royal Mail issued a series of Landscape Stamps in his honour in August 2016.
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The castle is enchanting; the view pleased me more than I can express, the River Avon tumbles down a cascade at the foot of it. It is well laid out by one Brown who has set up on a few ideas of Kent and
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writer opined: "Such, however, was the effect of his genius that when he was the happiest man, he will be least remembered; so closely did he copy nature that his works will be mistaken." In 1772, Sir
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of Huntingdonshire from 1770 to 1771. He continued to work and travel until his sudden collapse and death on 6 February 1783, on the doorstep of his daughter Bridget Holland's house, at 6
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His landscapes were at the forefront of fashion. They were fundamentally different from what they replaced, the well-known formal gardens of England which were criticised by
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and others from the 1710s. Starting in 1719, William Kent replaced these with more naturalistic compositions, which reached their greatest refinement in Brown's landscapes.
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Capability Brown produced more than 100 architectural drawings, and his work in the field of architecture was a natural outgrowth of his unified picture of the
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It is estimated that Brown was responsible for more than 170 gardens surrounding the finest country houses and estates in Britain. His work endures at
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landscape architect. He became both "rich and honoured and had 'improved' a greater acreage of ground than any landscape architect" who preceded him.
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wrote the first full monograph on Capability Brown, fleshing out the generic attributions with documentation from country house estate offices.
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Many of Capability Brown's parks and gardens may still be visited today. A partial list of the landscapes he designed or worked on includes:
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would opine that Brown's 'natural curves' were as artificial as the straight lines that were common in French gardens. Brown's portrait by
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service, designing the gardens and park, and then managing their landscaping and planting. He is most famous for the landscaped parks of
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and landowner while her family had surveyors and engineers among its members. They had eight children: Bridget in 1746,
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During the 19th century he was widely criticised, but during the twentieth century his reputation rose again.
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in October 2017 to review the issues facing the survival of these landscapes as well as suggested solutions.
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mansions and other buildings which he planned". Brown's first country house project was the remodelling of
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The grave of Capability Brown in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire
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authoritarianism" and showing a lack of imagination and even taste on the part of his patrons.
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has suggested that the latter resulted from a favourable account of his talent in
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On 22 November 1744 he married Bridget Wayet (affectionately called Biddy) from
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A festival to celebrate the tercentenary of Brown's birth was held in 2016. The
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After school Lancelot worked as the head gardener's apprentice at Sir William
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in 1782 and she described his "grammatical" manner in her literary terms:
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until he was 16. Brown's father, William Brown, had been Sir William
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Memorial to Capability Brown in the church of St Peter and St Paul,
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This deftness of touch was recognised in his own day; one anonymous
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of the new English style Brown became immensely sought after by the
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Pevsner, N., et al. 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland
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Heath, Gerald; White, Kathy, Editor; Heath, Joan. Editor (2000),
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for 1770, although his son Lance carried out most of the duties.
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Blomfield, Sir F. Reginald; Thomas, Inigo, Illustrator (1972) ,
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Lancelot 'Capability' Brown Date: 1716 – 1783 Landscape Gardener
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The Omnipotent Magician: Lancelot "Capability" Brown, 1716–1783
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Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
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Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape
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Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape
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Quoted in Peter Willis, "Capability Brown in Northumberland"
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Publisher: Hacker Art Books; Facsimile edition (June 1972)
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until he was 23. In 1739 he journeyed south to the port of
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A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600–1840
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allowed that Kent "was succeeded by a very able master".
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Vulnerability Brown: Capability Brown landscapes at risk
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Fisherwick, Staffordshire, Redgrave Hall, Suffolk, and
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Perhaps Brown's sternest critic was his contemporary
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More than 30 of the gardens are open to the public.
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the remnants of previous formally patterned styles.
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High sheriffs of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire
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In 1764, Brown was appointed 3537:Capability Brown's unfinished garden 3170:(3rd ed.), Whitefish, Montana: 2921: 2599:"INTERACTIVE MAP | Capability Brown" 2405:A Dissertation on Oriental Gardening 2363: 1936:Widdicombe Park, near Slapton, Devon 1028:Category:Gardens by Capability Brown 1021: 904:The Gardens Trust with support from 567:(where he also designed the house), 554: 122: 49:adding citations to reliable sources 20: 3445:. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2007 2286: 2069:. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. 2007 13: 3581:English Landscape Garden designers 3474:Britten, Nick (19 February 2009). 3156: 2814:Bohn's English Gentleman's Library 2241:, London: Hutchinson, p. 19, 1978:Wootton Place Rectory, Oxfordshire 1939:Wimbledon House, South West London 336:Unlike other architects including 14: 3617: 3517:National Portrait Gallery, London 3416: 3217:(2nd ed.), New York: Praeger 3167:A History of Gardening in England 963:parish church. Her father was an 455:, seat of Sir Richard Grenville. 3443:, Encyclopædia Britannica Online 3421: 2927: 2524:, Encyclopædia Britannica Online 2485:"Sir Uvedale Price, 1st Baronet" 2097:McKenna, Steve (17 April 2016). 2067:, Encyclopædia Britannica Online 1071:Ancaster House, Richmond, Surrey 1006:. Brown sent two of his sons to 942: 871:Later landscape architects like 860:'s positive account of Brown in 127: 25: 2961:, London: Chatto & Windus, 2912: 2886: 2854: 2845: 2832: 2798: 2789: 2759: 2750: 2741: 2732: 2707: 2675: 2645: 2621: 2591: 2566: 2477: 2438: 2412: 2392: 2357: 2319: 2254: 1684:, Roehampton, South West London 1290:Chalfont House, Buckinghamshire 1018:and rose to become an admiral. 879:, c. 1773, is conserved in the 738: 298: 36:needs additional citations for 3566:Architects from Northumberland 3459:"Capability Brown — 300 years" 3295:, Newton, Mass: C. T. 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