‘Capability’ Brown is thought to have worked on perhaps 150 or so country houses, nearly a third of which I have painted for a A Brush with Brown. Whilst a handful are fragments of once great designs, they include many of Brown’s most important surviving works, from Alnwick in the north to Petworth and Burton Pynsent in the south. In these places, I see all the hallmarks of ‘Capability’ Brown’s legacy – the park grazed by sheep or deer, serpentine lake, undulating hills whose contours are softened by clumps of trees, distant house – but all of them seen through my eye as a painter.
It seemed to me appropriate that I, as an artist, should illustrate and write my first book about Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown to celebrate the 300th anniversary of his birth. Tim Scott Bolton
‘A Brush with Brown, The Landscapes of ‘Capability’ Brown’ features full-colour illustrations of this extraordinary body of work and is available in hardback. Find out more…
- Heveningham Hall, Suffolk SOLD
- Nuneham House SOLD
- Sledmere SOLD
- Southill Beds SOLD
- Berrington SOLD
- Cadland SOLD
- Roche Abbey, Yorks wc36x54cm
- Harwood oil 39x59cm
- Wardour Old Castle SOLD
- Scampston SOLD
- Scampston SOLD
- Burton Constable, Yorks, SOLD
- Rothley Lower Lake, SOLD
- Wallington, SOLD
- Compton Verney, SOLD
- Claremont, SOLD
- Hulne Priory, SOLD
- Alnwick Castle, Northumberland SOLD
- Wimpole Sham Castle, Cambs wc36x55 £850
- Wimpole, SOLD
- Weston Park Lake and Boathouse, Shrops, SOLD
- Weston Park, SOLD
- Burton Pynsent, Somerset, SOLD
- Blenheim, SOLD
- Luton Hoo Walled Garden, Beds wc37x55 £850
- Luton Hoo, SOLD
- Luton Hoo SOLD
- Milton Abbey, SOLD
- Milton Abbey, SOLD
- Fawsley, Northants, SOLD
- Audley End, SOLD
- Audley End, SOLD
- Castle Ashby, SOLD
- Cedars 1 wc52x72 £1,250
- Chatsworth, SOLD
- Prior Park, Bath, SOLD
- Corsham Court Bath House, Wilts, SOLD
- Corsham Court Picture Gallery, SOLD
- Astrop Park, Northants, SOLD
- Longleat, SOLD
- Chalecote From the River Avon, Warks wc36x54, £900
- 1757 Bowood, Wilts wc45x67 £900
- Syon from Kew
- 1754 Burghley Lion Bridge, Lincs SOLD
- 1754 Burghley, Lincs SOLD
- Sherbourne Castle Lakes Dorset, SOLD
- Sherborne, SOLD
- Petworth Park Sussex SOLD
- Packington, Warks SOLD
- Kirtlington, SOLD
- Croome, SOLD
- Croome court view from south west HR small, SOLD
- Warwick Castle, SOLD
- Wakefield Lodge, SOLD
- Stowe Boycott Pavilion, SOLD
- Stowe, SOLD
- Stowe Temple, Oil27x53cm, £650
- Wotton Underwood, Bucks wc31x47, £700
- Kiddington, Oxfordshire, SOLD
- New Wardour Castle SOLD
- 1757 Longleat Walled Garden, Wilts, SOLD
- Syon Lodges, Middlesex, SOLD
- Burton Pynsent, SOLD
- Syon The Lion Gate, SOLD
- Alnwick, Hulne Park, SOLD
- Croome Island Temple, SOLD
- Kirkeharle St Wilfred’s Church, Northumberland, SOLD
- Croome View, SOLD