The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-83) has become
synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden.
Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the 'capabilities' of a
particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Rising to the
position of Master Gardener to George III, his trademark features
included bald lawns, clumped trees, lakes and enclosing belts of
woodland on the estate's perimeter, setting a park formula that
lasted well into the next century. Laura Mayer presents a concise
and colourful introduction to Brown and other leading landscape
gardeners of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, such as
William Kent, Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton. She explores
how competing ideas in garden design were shaped both by changes in
prevailing fashion and by the innovations of particular designers,
and why Brown's designs are currently considered to be the epitome
of landscape gardening in this period.
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