Capability Brown- Landscape architect

"England's Greatest Gardener"

Source; http://www.capabilitybrown.org/about-capability-brown

Known as one of the first Landscape Architects, Brown designed and worked on many very famous grounds around Britain. He was a master of water technology, directing and shaping the lakes and rivers to excentuate the shape of the land, using the border of the lake to show the land. Brown worked with almost every county in England, traveling by horse and carriage travelling through the landscape he could see the land quite intimately.  He was known in his days, as a man who was fizzing with ideas, someone who has travelled and has a desire to expand and to re image the landscape of towns or estates. He would have been seen as quite famous, he stood out to the wealthy with his designs and creations. Brown set bridges and buildings into the landscape as a jeweller would set valuable stone into jewellery. Precise and thought out, he was a calculated man. He would choose every tree and plant in the grounds, and design the space for them, not just so the space looks amazing but so the whole image of the landscape is transformed into something more powerful and something very British. 
A visionary vandal who colonised the land.
‘Capability’ Brown is best remembered for landscape on an immense scale, constructing not only gardens and parkland, but planting woods and building farms linked by carriage drives, or `ridings', many miles from the main house. Although his work is continually reassessed, every landscape gardener and landscape architect since, both in Britain and across the developed world, has been influenced in one way or another by Brown. Over two centuries have passed since his death, but such are the enduring qualities of his work that over 150 of the 260 or so landscapes with which he is associated remain worth seeing today. The images that Brown created are as deeply embedded in the English character as the paintings of Turner and the poetry of Wordsworth.
http://www.capabilitybrown.org/about-capability-brown


Adderbury House, Oxfordshire (designs not thought to be implemented)[33]
Addington Place, Croydon
Alnwick Castle, Northumberland
Althorp, Northamptonshire
Ampthill Park, Ampthill, Bedfordshire
Ancaster House, Richmond, Surrey
Appuldurcombe House, Isle of Wight
Ashburnham Place, East Sussex
Ashridge House, Hertfordshire
Aske Hall, North Yorkshire
Astrop Park, Northamptonshire
Audley End, Essex
Aynhoe Park, Northamptonshire
The Backs, Cambridge
Badminton House, Gloucestershire
Ballyfin House, Ireland
Basildon Park, Berkshire
Battle Abbey, East Sussex
Beaudesert, Staffordshire
Beechwood, Bedfordshire
Belhus, Essex
Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire
Benham, Berkshire
Benwell Tower, near Newcastle upon Tyne
Berrington Hall, Herefordshire
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire
Boarstall, Buckinghamshire (unknown if work carried out)[34]
Bowood House, Wiltshire
Branches Park, Cowlinge, Suffolk
Brentford, Ealing
Brightling Park, Sussex
Broadlands, Hampshire
Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire
Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Burton Constable Hall, East Riding of Yorkshire
Burton Park, Sussex
Burton Pynsent, Somerset
Byram, West Yorkshire
Cadland, Hampshire
Capheaton Hall, Northumberland
Cardiff Castle, Cardiff
Castle Ashby House, Northamptonshire[35]
Caversham, Berkshire
Chalfont House, Buckinghamshire
Charlecote, Warwickshire
Charlton, Wiltshire
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Chilham Castle, Kent
Chillington Hall, West Midlands
Church Stretton Old Rectory, Shropshire
Clandon Park, Surrey
Claremont, Surrey
Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire
Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Coombe Abbey, Coventry
Corsham Court, Wiltshire
Croome Park, Worcestershire
Dodington Park, Gloucestershire
Danson Park, Bexley Borough of London
Darley Abbey Park, Derby
Euston Hall, Suffolk
Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire
Fawley Court, Oxfordshire
Gatton Park, Surrey
Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
Hampton Court Palace, Surrey[7]
Harewood House, Leeds
Heveningham Hall, Suffolk
Highclere Castle, Hampshire
Highcliffe Castle, Dorset
Himley Hall, Staffordshire
Holkham Hall, Norfolk
Holland Park, London
The Hoo, Hertfordshire
Hornby Castle, North Yorkshire
Howsham, near York
Ickworth, Suffolk
Ingestre, Staffordshire
Ingress Abbey, Kent
Kelston, Somerset
Kew Gardens, South West London[10]
Kiddington Hall, Oxfordshire
Kimberley, Norfolk
Kimbolton Castle, Cambridgeshire
King's Weston House, Bristol
Kirkharle, Northumberland
Kirtlington, Oxfordshire
Knowsley, near Liverpool
Kyre Park, Herefordshire
Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
Laleham Abbey, Surrey
Langley, Berkshire
Langley Park, Norfolk
Latimer, Buckinghamshire
Leeds Abbey, Kent
Littlegrove, Barnet, London
Lleweni Hall, Clwyd
Longford Castle, Wiltshire
Longleat, Wiltshire
Lowther, Cumbria
Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire
Madingley Hall, Cambridgeshire
Maiden Earley, Berkshire
Mamhead, Devon
Melton Constable Hall, Norfolk
Milton Abbey, Dorset
Moccas Court, Herefordshire
Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire
Mount Clare, Roehampton, South West London
Navestock, Essex
Newnham Paddox, Warwickshire
Newton Park, Newton St Loe, Somerset
New Wardour Castle, Wiltshire
North Cray Place, near Sidcup, Bexley, London
North Stoneham Park, Eastleigh, Hampshire
Nuneham Courtenay, Oxfordshire
Oakley, Shropshire
Packington Park, Warwickshire
Paddenswick Manor, West London
Patshull Hall, Staffordshire
Paultons Park, Hampshire
Peper Harow, Surrey
Peterborough House, Hammersmith, London
Petworth House, West Sussex
Pishiobury, Hertfordshire
Porter's Park, Hertfordshire
Prior Park, Somerset
Ragley Hall, Warwickshire
Redgrave Park, Suffolk
Roche Abbey, South Yorkshire
Sandleford, Berkshire
Savernake Forest, Wiltshire
Schloss Richmond (Richmond Palace) in Braunschweig, Germany
Scampston Hall, North Yorkshire
Sheffield Park Garden, Sussex
Sherborne Castle, Dorset
Sledmere House, East Riding of Yorkshire
Southill Park, Bedfordshire
South Stoneham House, Southampton, Hampshire
Stoke Park, Buckinghamshire
Stowe Landscape Garden
Syon House, West London
Temple Newsam, Leeds
Thorndon Hall, Essex
Trentham Gardens, Staffordshire
Ugbrooke Park, Devon
Wallington, Northumberland[36]
Warwick Castle, Warwick
Wentworth Castle, South Yorkshire
West Hill, Putney, South London
Weston Park, Staffordshire
Whitehall, London
Whitley Beaumont, West Yorkshire
Widdicombe Park, near Slapton, Devon
Wimbledon House, South West London
Wimbledon Park, South West London
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
Wolterton Hall, Norfolk
Woodchester, Gloucestershire
Woodside, Berkshire
Wootton Place Rectory, Oxfordshire
Wotton, Buckinghamshire
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire
Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire
Wycombe Abbey, Buckinghamshire
Wynnstay, Clwyd, Wales
Youngsbury, Hertfordshire
More than 30 of the gardens are open to the public.
CRITISISM
Richard Owen Cambridge, the English poet and satirical author, declared that he hoped to die before Brown so that he could "see heaven before it was 'improved'." This was a typical statement reflecting the controversy about Brown's work, which has continued over the last 200 years. By contrast, a recent historian and author, Richard Bisgrove, described Brown's process as perfecting nature by "judicious manipulation of its components, adding a tree here or a concealed head of water there. His art attended to the formal potential of ground, water, trees and so gave to English landscape its ideal forms. The difficulty was that less capable imitators and less sophisticated spectators did not see nature perfected... they saw simply what they took to be nature."
Quote; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3rnhSchQQk

This mans influence on the British ideal of landscape was huge, his works of art are still in tact today and many of them are publicly accessible. It would be really interesting to see these places and to document the change.  
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