Lancelot Brown
✓ Source-basedstableBritish landscape architect (1716-1783)
ArchitectsLived 1716 to 1783 · aged 67
Fame53.7
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Languages25
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Lancelot "Capability" Brown was an English gardener and landscape architect, a notable figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.
Also inDeutsch
Photos 7
Ha-ha (the hidden ditch in the foreground) and house at Berrington Hall in Herefordshire, Brown's last big project, a new-build designed by his son-in-law, placed to exploit views in two directions.
Badminton House in Gloucestershire: features of the Brownian landscape at full maturity in the 19th century
Brown's Pond at Sandleford, Berkshire. One of a string of former priory fish ponds adapted by Brown who was at Sandleford on behalf of Elizabeth Montagu from 1781.
At Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, Brown dammed the paltry stream flowing under Vanbrugh's Grand Bridge, drowning half the structure with improved results
Memorial to Capability Brown in the church of St Peter and St Paul, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire
The grave of Capability Brown in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul, Fenstanton, CambridgeshireArchitects born in the 1710s 6
About this person
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Architects
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Architect
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deceased
Dates
Lived 1716 to 1783 · aged 67
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