Portrait of Capability Brown is a 1769 portrait painting by the English artist Nathaniel Dance-Holland depicting the 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.
| Portrait of Capability Brown | |
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| Artist | Nathaniel Dance-Holland |
| Year | c.1769 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, portrait |
| Dimensions | 75.2 cm × 63.2 cm (29.6 in × 24.9 in) |
| Location | National Portrait Gallery, London |
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
edit- ^ Brown p.vii
- ^ Wright p.289
- ^ https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw07142/Capability-Brown?LinkID=mp00595&role=sit&rNo=0
- ^ https://collections.burghley.co.uk/collection/portrait-of-lancelot-capability-brown-1716-1783-studio-of-nathaniel-dance-r-a-1735-1811/
Bibliography
edit- 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.
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