Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, 1716-1783
Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown''s influence spread into the lowland landscape at large, and into landscape painting. He stands behind ...
Lancelot Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estates and mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green. This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world. At home, it proved so pleasing that Brown''s influence spread into the lowland landscape at large, and into landscape painting. He stands behind ...
