Circle of Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) Portrait of Lancelot (C...

Hammer

£30,000

Circle of Johann Zoffany (1733-1810)
Portrait of Lancelot (Capability) Brown
Dated: 1775
Oil on canvas

Lancelot Brown (1715-1783), more commonly known as Capability Brown, was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style. He is remembered as "the last of the great English 18th-century artists to be accorded his due" and "England's greatest gardener". 

Provenance:
A major West Country house.

Dimensions:
(Frame) 51 in. (H) x 40.5 in. (W)
(Canvas) 46 in. (H) x 36 in. (W)