| 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 a 1769 portrait painting by the English artist Nathaniel Dance-Holland depicting the 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]
