Lancelot "Capability" Brown

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English person garden designer landscape architect person

Lancelot "Capability" Brown was an 18th-century English landscape architect renowned for reshaping the grounds of numerous great estates into naturalistic parklands that defined the English landscape garden style.

Aliases (2)

Lancelot Brown ×2
Lancelot Capability Brown ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	English person → garden designer → landscape architect → person →
activeYearsEnd	1783 →
activeYearsStart	1740 →
alsoKnownAs	Lancelot Capability Brown →
birthDate	1716-08-30 →
birthPlace	Kirkharle, Northumberland, England →
burialPlace	Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England →
causeOfDeath	stroke →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Great Britain →
deathDate	1783-02-06 →
deathPlace	London, England →
employer	Stowe House →
fullName	Lancelot Brown →
influenced	Humphry Repton →
influencedBy	William Kent →
knownFor	English landscape garden style → naturalistic landscape design → reshaping grounds of English country houses →
movement	English landscape garden →
nickname	Capability Brown →
notableWork	Alnwick Castle grounds → Audley End park → Blenheim Palace park → Bowood House park → Burghley House park → Chatsworth House park → Claremont Landscape Garden → Croome Court landscape → Harewood House landscape → Highclere Castle grounds → Petworth House park → Stowe landscape gardens → Syon House grounds → Wimpole Hall landscape →
numberOfChildren	8 →
occupation	engineer → gardener → landscape architect →
positionHeld	Chief gardener at Stowe →
spouse	Bridget Wayet →
style	clumps of trees → concealed boundaries → ha-ha walls → serpentine lakes → sweeping lawns →

Referenced by (25)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Bowood House park → Burghley House park → Chatsworth House park → Petworth House park → Wimpole Hall landscape →	designer
Claremont Landscape Garden → Croome Court landscape → Great Lake (Blenheim Palace) → Stowe landscape gardens →	designedBy
Audley End House and Gardens → Blenheim Palace → Harewood House →	landscapeDesigner
Knowsley Hall → Upper Lake →	hasLandscapeDesigner
Lancelot "Capability" Brown ("Lancelot Capability Brown") →	alsoKnownAs
Wimpole Hall landscape →	associatedWith
Stowe House →	associatedWithLandscapeDesigner
Capability Brown ("Lancelot Brown") →	birthName
Lancelot "Capability" Brown ("Lancelot Brown") →	fullName
Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England →	hasBurialSiteOf
Kirkharle, Northumberland, England →	hasNotablePerson
Fenstanton, Huntingdonshire, England →	hasNotablePersonBuried
Humphry Repton →	influencedBy
Burghley House park →	notableWorkOf
Claremont Landscape Garden →	significantPerson