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Capability Brown : designing the English landscape
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown's designs are organic, weaving gestures of colour and perspective into the features that the country already afforded. So natural are his designs, and so perfectly do they complement the houses within them, that for many a Capability Brown landscape is the epitome of the English estate. His gardens and parklands as much as the houses themselves would become icons of British country life. Published to coincide with the tercentenary of his birth, this book illuminates fifteen of Brown's most celebrated landscapes. Including rarely seen archival drawings that shed light on Brown's process, this book serves as a guide to Britain's most beloved landscapes and an exploration of the masterful mind behind their creation.
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Place-making : the art of Capability Brown
'This book by John Phibbs adds to the corpus of authoritative texts published by Historic England. [...] The book is supported by an extensive 45-page glossary - useful for explaining the main text or as a stand-alone quick reference. [...] Whilst the book is about one of our most influential landscape designers, it is also relevant to those who appreciate and care for historic buildings.' Michael F. Garber, Fenland & Wash regional group.
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Lancelot brown and the capability men
Lancelot \"Capability\" Brown is often thought of as the innovative genius who single-handedly pioneered a new, naturalistic style of landscape design, but he was in fact only one of many landscape designers in Georgian England. Published to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of Brown's birth, this book casts important new light on his world-renowned work, his eventful life, and the wider and robust world of landscape design in Georgian England.
David Brown and Tom Williamson argue that Brown was one of the most successful designers of his time working in a style that was otherwise widespread—and that it was his skill with this style, and not his having invented it, that linked his name to it. The authors look closely at Brown's design business and the products he offered clients, showing that his design packages helped define the era's aesthetic. They compare Brown's business to those of similar designers such as the Adam brothers, Thomas Chippendale, and Josiah Wedgwood, and they contextualize Brown's work within the wider contexts of domestic planning and the rise of neoclassicism. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book celebrates the work of a master designer who was both a product and harbinger of the modern world.
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Production, Power, and the “Natural”
Garden historians have often emphasized the divergent development of designed landscapes in America and England in the course of the eighteenth century. This essay argues that the extent of that divergence in the period before about 1760 has been exaggerated, largely as a consequence of misconceptions about the real nature of English gardens. Only after 1760 did landscape design on both sides of the Atlantic really follow different trajectories, for reasons that were essentially social and ideological in character.
Journal Article
Capability Brown, the Aristocracy, and the Cultivation of the Eighteenth-Century British Landscaping Industry
Capability Brown cannot be identified as the originator of modern landscaping, yet he created a business that achieved an unrivaled impact, outshining those before, during, and after his lifetime. Whether Brown was a great artist, opinions may differ. However, there is evidence that Brown was an outstandingly successful businessman. From humble origins, Brown ultimately created a business that seized the lion’s share of the landscaping market of Britain’s elite in the second half of the eighteenth century, counting half of the House of Lords as his clients. A study of Brown’s surviving account book, bank ledgers, and personal correspondence provides new insight into the rapid development, vast scale, and nature of his business. This research shows that commissions were not just gained due to his skills in landscaping, but through his exceptional business acumen, his method of operations, organizational structure, focus, work ethic, and ability to develop contacts and win trust with both the aristocracy and ultimately the King of England. What emerges is a picture of Brown as an entrepreneur of considerable skill, enabling him to uniquely build a national landscaping business.
Journal Article
Capability Brown is busted
NO portrait bust exists of Capability Brown, the genius landscape gardener responsible for the gracious parklands and water features of such estates as Stowe, Burghley and Harewood. Next year is the tercentenary of his birth and Haddonstone, maker of garden ornaments and architectural stonework, is rectifying the omission with Hannah Northam's splendid stonework sculpture, modelled on Brown's 1773 portrait by Nathaniel Dance, which hangs in the National Gallery. It will be launched in the spring (01604 770711; www.haddonstone.co.uk).
Magazine Article
Our Debt to Capability Brown
There was much celebration in Britain in 2016 on the 300th anniversary of the birth of Lancelot \"Capability\" Brown (1716-83), but very little recognition in Australia.
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