Capability Brown
Lancelot Brown (1715/1716 - February 6, 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener, perhaps the first of his kind.
Born in Northumberland, he was employed by various landed families to improve the layout of their gardens, and worked at Blenheim Palace, Kew Gardens, Warwick Castle, Bowood House, Milton Abbey (and nearby Milton Abbas village) and many other locations.
Brown laid out his Brownian parklands at an accelerated pace around England. This man who refused work in Ireland because he had not finished England was called ?Capability? Brown because he was ?capable? of seeing the ?capabilities? within the landscape.
His style of smooth undulating grass in which would run straight to the house, clumps, belts, scattering of trees and his serpentine lakes was a new style within the English landscape and hence opened Brown to criticism by many landscape theorists. landscape architecture
