Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Capability Brown NPG 1490

© National Portrait Gallery, London

after Nathaniel Dance (later Sir Nathaniel Holland, Bt)

'Capability' Brown was the most successful eighteenth-century landscape designer. He began working as a gardener in his native Northumberland and became William Kent's assistant at Stowe, Buckinghamshire before striking out on his own. From 1749 he worked independently, mainly as a landscape gardener. He worked for an impressive range of clients and told them that their estates had great 'capabilities'. He remoulded the parks around country houses with gentle slopes and serpentine lakes. His designs set a fashion for open, naturalistic landscapes, populated by... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.