Rousham – The Repton Gazette and Brown Advisor

264: What does Kent have to do with it?

On July 6, 2016

In Art and design, Friends and society, Nature and Order, Views

Capability Brown was no dandy but a diamond-decent down-home sort of chap and when Mr C of Essex asked me what that great master of gardening Capability Brown might have learned from Kent, I took it to my companions at the Tatler’s Waste-bin who wondered whether he had the county in mind or the man said to have been his master, that coiffed stylist, William Kent.

83: Where did he get it from? – Charles Bridgeman

By The Brown Advisor

On February 19, 2016

In Brown's life, Nature and Order

Lady L from Yorkshire asks about the relationship between the evidently esteemed Capability Brown, engine of endeavour, and his predecessor Charles Bridgeman.

84: Where did he get it from? – William Kent

By The Brown Advisor

On January 10, 2016

In Brown's life, Nature and Order

Dr M seems unable to prevent himself from taking on the character and personality of that gardener, architect and man for all seasons, William Kent.

54: Was Brown a plantsman?

By The Brown Advisor

On September 6, 2015

In Exotics

The Advisor has received a number of enquiries about Capability Brown’s use of exotics. Mrs D. has written from Hampshire to ask if Brown bought the Black Locust or

The Repton Gazette and Brown Advisor

300 Frequently Asked Questions about Capability Brown, and a further 200 about Humphry Repton

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264: What does Kent have to do with it?

83: Where did he get it from? – Charles Bridgeman

84: Where did he get it from? – William Kent

54: Was Brown a plantsman?

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