The name Lancelot \'Capability\' Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English Landscape garden: between 1751 and 1783 his consultancy handled over 170 major commissions.
Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the \'capabilities\' of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback..
The name Lancelot \'Capability\' Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English Landscape garden: between 1751 and 1783 his consultancy handled over 170 major commissions