Portrait of Capability Brown
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| 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 |
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]
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