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	Eden Prairie High School:Capability Brown
		Brown was born in a small Northumberland village of Kirkharle, in 1715.
		Brown was criticized for his wholesale destruction of so many formal gardens, and was also often accused of having worked to a formula.
		She states that the landscape changed drastically from 1730 to 1760 and this was due to the new landscape introduced by Capability Brown.
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	Capability Brown - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In the late 18th century the rise of romanticism, with its emphasis on untamed nature, the picturesque, the past, and the exotic, led to important...
		Lancelot Brown (1716 6 February, 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener.
		Lancelot "Capability" Brown was arguably one of England's greatest landscape gardeners.
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	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: History and Heritage: Timeline: 1700 to 1772: Richmond Gardens and 'Capability' Brown
		'Capability' Brown is recognised as one of the leading exponents of the English Landscape Movement.
		However, Brown continued to work on Richmond Gardens and a c.1794 plan of the Gardens shows two sections landscaped in Brown's style: the area north of Queen Caroline's Cottage, and the southern area between the Observatory and the Thames.
		As Brown died in 1783, it is safe to assume that a third planned section, surrounding the old Richmond Lodge, never received Brown's attentions.
	www.kew.org /heritage/timeline/1700to1772_brown.html (0 words)

	Capability Brown biography
		Brown has been criticized, with some justification, for destroying the works of previous generations of gardeners to create his landscapes.
		The English landscape garden under Capability Brown was a place of wide green undulating lawns with sinuous bands and clumps of trees, planted with the utmost care to give the impression of a romantic natural scene.
		Capability Brown died Feb. 6, 1783, in London, leaving behind himself a legacy unparalleled in the history of English gardening.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/bio/brown.htm (0 words)

	Capability Brown and Humphrey Repton at Brightling Park
		Brown's habit of discussing the 'capabilities of improvement' of a property gave him the nick name he's best known by.
		Brown was involved in the design of Brightling Park when Rose Fuller lived there in 1763.
		Here 'Capability' Brown emerges as the vandal, for he destroyed the three greatest Baroque gardens in England; Longleat House in 1757, and Chatsworth and Blenheim in 1760.
	www.johnmadjackfuller.homestead.com /reptonbrown.html (1602 words)

	Capability Brown
		Lancelot Brown (1715/1716 - February 6, 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener, now remembered as "the last of the great English eighteenth-century artists to be accorded his due", and "England's greatest gardener".
		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.
		Russell Page described Brown’s process as “encouraging his wealthy clients to tear out their splendid formal gardens and replace them with his facile compositions of grass, tree clumps and rather shapeless pools and lakes”.
	www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/c/ca/capability_brown.html (502 words)

	Capability Brown - The Landscapers Register
		The most famous of all British landscapers, Lancelot "Capability" Brown is widely credited with having changed the direction of British garden design, championing the "natural", ecologic style of landscaping that represented a fundamental departure from the very formal French Baroque style typical of grand estates and gardens until the late 18th century.
		Brown's mentor at Stowe was William Kent, one of the founders of the new English style.
		Brown was appointed head gardener at Hampton Court Palace in 1761, although he continued to undertake private commissions until his death in1783.
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	Landscape Architecture
		Lancelot (Capability) Brown (1716-1783) is one of the most influential English landscape gardeners.
		Brown influenced Humphry Repton (1752-1818), who presented his clients with red-leather-bound books of watercolors, showing?through cutout projections?what their large estates would look like before and after Repton improved their grounds and gardens.
		Capability Brown transformed the formal, geometric gardens of the Renaissance estates, digging and planting and reworking the landscape to manufacture a natural, Romantic vista.
	www.indiana.edu /~thtr/productions/2005/Arcadia/landscape.html (0 words)

	Welcome to Collections Picture Library
		Lancelot Brown was engaged as under-gardener at Stowe in Buckinghamshire.
		By their very nature Capability Brown's jobs lasted a long time, Burghley House, which he began working on in 1756 took twentyfive years and involved the extensive grounds as well as the addition of a bath house and banqueting hall.
		In 1764 Capability Brown was appointed H. Surveyor of Gardens and Waters at Hampton Court, an appointment which brought him a salary of £2000 a year and an official residence in the palace grounds.
	www.collectionspicturelibrary.com /bioBrown.html (570 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This man who refused work in Ireland because he had not finished England was called "Capability" Brown because he would tell his landed clients their estates had great "capability" for landscape improvement.
		This deftness of touch was not unrecognized in his own day; one anonymous obituary writer opined: "Such, however, was the effect of his genius that when he was the happiest man, he will be least remembered; so closely did he copy nature that his works will be mistaken".
		A parody of Capability Brown appears in the Discworld series of Novels by Terry Pratchett, in the form of a character called Bloody Stupid Johnson.
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	History of Horticulture - Brown, Lancelot 1715-1783
		He moved to London in 1751 and shortly became known as "capability" Brown because as a landscape gardener he saw capabilities for improvement in every garden.
		Hadfield states, "Brown was essentially a practical man with an eye for a certain type of landscape." After riding around an estate for a few hours, he would have visualized not how his standardized landscape could be imposed upon the existing scene but how it could be done at the least expense.
		Brown is criticized for the destruction that he wrought before he created: for the avenues felled and the handiwork of his predecessors which he obliterated.
	www.hcs.ohio-state.edu /hort/history/074.html (0 words)

	Lancelot 'Capability' Brown : Garden Designers and Horticulturists: The Twickenham Museum
		Lancelot (Capability) Brown was born at Kirkharle in Northumberland, the son of a gardener.
		In 1764 Brown was appointed Master Gardener at Hampton Court Palace in succession to John Greening and in this post he occupied an official residence, Wilderness House.
		Brown had also employed John Spyers as a surveyor, a native of Twickenham.
	www.twickenham-museum.org.uk /detail.asp?ContentID=295 (0 words)

	Capability Brown - InformationBlast
		Lancelot Brown (1715/1716 - February 6, 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener, perhaps the first of his kind.
		However Brown has not only been criticised he has also be praised by many notable authors after all his landscapes were the forefront of fashion and they were basically different to what was existing in England.
		The well-known formal gardens of England were removed by Brown and replaced with his grammatical landscapes.
	www.informationblast.com /Capability_Brown.html (361 words)

	Regency Artists authors\|writers\|georgian\|Actors \| Lancelot "Capability" Brown and Henry Repton
		Brown's popularity declined rapidly after his death, because his work was seen as a feeble imitation of wild nature.
		Since the death of Lancelot 'capability' Brown in 1783, no one figure had dominated English garden design; Repton was ambitious to fill this gap and sent circulars round his contacts in the upper classes advertising his services.
		Capability Brown had been a large-scale contractor, who not only designed, but also arranged the realisation of his work.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for capability
		Brown, ‘Capability’ (Lancelot) (1715–83) English landscape gardener who revolutionized garden and parkland layout in the 1700s.
		The term, frequently used in British psychoanalysis to describe an attitude adopted by some analysts, is taken from a letter of the English poet John Keats...
		Growth of perceptual, emotional, intellectual, and behavioral capabilities and functioning during childhood (prior to puberty).
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	Capability Brown
		Lancelot Brown (1716-1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener (see landscape architecture), 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, and many other locations.
		He would tell clients that their gardens had "capability", meaning "possibilities" or "potential".
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	Omnipelagos.com ~ article "Capability Brown"
		Lancelot Brown (1716 – 6 February, 1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English landscape gardener.
		As an exponent of the new English style, Brown became immensely sought after by the landed families.
		Brown died in 1783, in Hertford Street, London, on the doorstep of his daughter Bridget who had married the architect Henry Holland.
	www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=capability_%42rown (797 words)

	BROWN
		In his design of Stowe Garden, Brown provided unity and form which he felt was reflective of the noble society.
		Although Brown's vision was to depict nature, his aim was not to depict nature as wild and uncontrolled.
		Brown's landscape made use of elements in nature, but he created the garden instead of allowing nature to create the garden.
	www.umich.edu /~ece/student_projects/stowe/jill4.html (0 words)

	ART 002 - Assignment #6
		Capability Brown was one of the greatest landscape gardeners in England.
		Capability moved to the village of Hammersmith on the outskirts of London in the 1750s.
		He acquired the nickname of Capability because he would tell his clients that their gardens had great capabilities.
	www.personal.psu.edu /uup101/Assign6.htm (806 words)

	brown, lancelot
		Lancelot 'Capability' Brown - a biography from the landscape...
		Lancelot Brown -- EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica Lancelot Brown the foremost English master of garden design, whose works were characterized by their natural, unplanned appearance.
		John Brown -- EncyclopÃ¦dia Britannica Brown, Lancelot the foremost English master of garden design, whose works were characterized by their natural, unplanned appearance.
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	Lancelot Capability Brown
		In 1751, Brown became an independent landscape gardener, although he described himself as a ‘place-maker’ rather than a landscape gardener, and quickly became very fashionable and in great demand.
		Lancelot Brown became known as ‘Capability’ because of his fondness of speaking of a country estate having a great ‘capability’ for improvement.
		Lancelot Capability Brown’s sympathetic method of working meant that of the 200 plus parks he designed a surprising number remain in good condition.
	www.greatbritishgardens.co.uk /lancelot_capability_brown.htm (0 words)

	Famous English Men Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
		Capability Brown is without doubt, the most famous of English landscape designers.
		Lancelot Brown moved to Buckinghamshire in 1739 and was employed by Lord Cobham at Stowe in 1741.
		In 1764 Brown was appointed Master Gardener at Hampton Court.
	www.englandsportal.com /capabilitybrown.html (228 words)

	Lancelot Capability Brown - Ask.com Web Search
		Lancelot 'Capability' Brown - a biography from the landscape...
		Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1715-1783) designed the great parks and estates for the wealthy in the latter half of the 18th century.
		Capability Brown, much admired by Lady Croom, created many fine gardens for great English country houses.
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	Reckless Gardener Magazine - Croome Park - Restoration of Capability Brown's first Landscape Commission.
		It is also interesting to ponder why the 6th Earl took the risk of employing Brown for this substantial commission for despite Brown's reputation for his work at Stowe (where he added many of his own ideas to the themes introduced by William Kent) he had no notable portfolio of independent work.
		The land at Croome was boggy and from this rather unpromising foundation his vision of a sweeping landscape saw the creation of an immense ornamental river and lake and the planting of thousands of trees, shrubs and flowers.
		Croome became the envy of the English aristocracy and landed gentry and Brown was to continue to be associated with the Estate and its development for the rest of his life, in fact he died in 1783 on his way back from visiting the 6th Earl at his London residence.
	www.recklessgardener.co.uk /gardenvists/croome.html (0 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Opinion - Capability Brown exposed as the Naked Chancellor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Brown's abilities are a sycophantic axiom among the media.
		All the micro-managerial tinkering, the obsession with detail, the statist assumptions - the Brown programme is predicated on all the Keynesian delusions of yesteryear.
		Brown's effortless anti-charisma is another, major factor in rendering his candidature for Number 10 a tad problematic.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /opinion.cfm?id=469462006 (855 words)

	Lancelot 'Capability' Brown - a biography from the landscape architecture and Gardens Guide
		Lancelot Brown was born in Northumberland and served an apprenticeship with Sir William Lorraine.
		Brown moved to Buckinghamshire in 1739 and was employed by Lord Cobham at Stowe in 1741.
		Lancelot Brown's nickname 'Capability' came from his fondness for speaking about a country estate having a great 'capability' for improvement.
	www.gardenvisit.com /b/brown1.htm (0 words)

	Landscape Designers of England and Europe
		He would tell all his clients that their properties had "great capabilities," and so he earned the nickname, "Capability." His influence was so widespread that most areas of England today have at least one landscape designed by Brown.
		Brown is largely responsible for changing the English landscape from a formal design of knot gardens, parterres, and topiaries to informal meandering paths, streams, serpentine lakes, and rolling hills with scattered groupings of trees--a "natural," yet man-made, look.
		Although Brown was perhaps the most influential in this revolution in the English landscape, his contemporary William Kent (1685-1748) is often credited as the architect of the fully mature English landscape.
	pss.uvm.edu /ppp/articles/euroland.htm (700 words)

	Picturesque Gardens
		In 1792 Gilpin published an essay in which he wrote that while beauty is usually associated with the smooth and the neat, such as the gently sculpted landscapes of Capability Brown with their smooth lawns leading down to placid lakes; picturesque beauty tends to have a wilder quality with rougher textures.
		Humphrey Repton was influenced by Gilpins ideas, especially the idea that the design of a garden should harmonize with the surrounding landforms; it was a bit of a shock for Repton when he found himself embroiled in a heated controversy about picturesque gardens versus the typical gardens of Capability Brown.
		Repton was quite open about how much his designs owed to Capability Brown, and by the early 1790s he was becoming Brown's successor, so he was the perfect target for those who disliked Brown's gardens.
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