Our favourite landscapes echo our past habitat My Times column on the Capability Brown tercentenary: Next year marks the 300th birthday of Lancelot Brown at Kirkharle, in Northumberland, the man who saw “capability” in every landscape and indefatigably transformed England. In his 280 commissions, Capability Brown stamped his mark on some 120,000 acres, tearing out […]
How Capability Brown recreated the African savanna
Matt Ridley