Brown, Lancelot
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Brown, Lancelot (1715/16–83). English landscape designer, generally known as ‘Capability’ because of his references to the ‘capabilities’ of the places about which he was consulted. Born in Northumberland, he worked first for Sir William Loraine at Kirkharle but by 1741 had moved south to Stowe. Brown took a prominent part in the evolution of the Stowe landscape for which
Gibbs and
Kent were providing buildings. Soon Brown established his own distinctive landscape style with its clumps, belts, bridges, irregular lakes, and encircling woodland and lawns. Major commissions began to come his way, among them Croome (from 1750), Longleat, Burton Constable,
Chatsworth (from 1761), and
Blenheim (from about 1764). In 1764 Brown was appointed master gardener at Hampton Court.
Walpole wrote of him: ‘ So closely did he copy nature that his work will be mistaken for it.’
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