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Capability Brown biographyBY DAVID ROSS, EDITOR
From Wotton he joined the gardening staff of Lord Cobham, at Stowe, Buckinghamshire. There he served under William Kent, one of the founders of the new English style of Landscape Gardening. The men became close, and Brown married Kent's daughter. At Stowe, Brown was responsible for actually implementing Kent's designs, but it seems clear that Lord Cobham also allowed Brown to take on work for his aristocratic friends while he was still employed at Stowe. Lord Cobham died in 1749, and Brown left Stowe to set up his own gardening practice based in London two years later. To say that Brown was successful in his profession is an understatement of the highest order. He became immensely sought after by the aristocracy, and it is estimated that he was responsible for some 170 gardens surrounding the finest country houses and estates in Britain. So numerous are his designs, and so widespread was his influence, that it is almost harder to find a prominent country house that did not have a garden designed by Capability Brown. Lancelot Brown soon acquired the peculiar nickname "Capability" from his habit of telling clients that their gardens had "great capabilities". In his talented hands, they certainly did.
List of Capability Brown gardens
A partial listing of surviving gardens designed by Capability Brown that are open to the public
Alnwick Castle Audley End House Blenheim Palace Bowood Broadlands Burghley House Burton Constable Hall Castle Ashby Gardens Charlecote Park Chatsworth Chillington Hall Clandon Park Clumber Park Corsham Court Euston Hall Grimsthorpe Castle and Park Hampton Court Harewood House Highclere Castle and Gardens Holkham Hall Ickworth House Longleat Petworth House Prior Park Landscape Garden Scampston Hall Sheffield Park Garden Sherborne Castle Sledmere House Stowe Landscape Garden Syon Park Temple Newsam Warwick Castle Weston Park Wimpole Hall Wrest Park Gardens Latest History articles History Contents © David Ross and Britain Express |
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