Portrait of Capability Brown is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the English artist Nathaniel Dance-Holland, from 1769. It depicts the renowned landscape gardener Lancelot "Capability" Brown.[1][2] Brown was known for promoting the English landscape garden design in contrast to the previously dominant and more regimented French landscape garden style. Dance-Holland was a noted portraitist of the Georgian era and a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Today the work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, in London, having been acquired in 1989.[3] A version of the painting is at Burghley House in Cambridgeshire where Brown did work for the Earl of Exeter over many years.[4]

References

  1. ^ Brown p.vii
  2. ^ Wright p.289
  3. ^ National Portrait Gallery
  4. ^ National Portrait Gallery

Bibliography

  • Brown, Jane. Lancelot 'Capability' Brown: The Omnipotent Magician, 1716-1783. Random House, 2012.
  • Wright, Christopher. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Yale University Press, 2006.
Allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Capability_Brown
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