The omnipotent magician

Capability Brown changed the face of eighteenth-century England, designing country estatesand mansions, moving hills and making flowing lakes and serpentine rivers, a magical world of green.This English landscape style spread across Europe and the world.At home, it was so politically pleasing and socially apt that his influence spread beyond walls and hedgerows into the lowland landscape at large, and into landscape painting. In this vivid, lively biography, based on detailed research, Jane Brown paints an unforgettable picture of the man, his work, his happy domestic life,and his crowded world.