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Bridget Brown, daughter of Bridget & Lancelot #CapabilityBrown married #architect #HenryHolland Jnr #OTD 11 February 1773 at St George's Hanover Square #London. They named their eldest son Lancelot. Brown & Holland had formed a business partnership in 1771 https://t.co/jGUeoqaVfI
“Your Dryads must go into black gloves, Madam. Their father-in-law Lady Nature’s second husband, is dead! Mr Brown dropped down at his own door yesterday” wrote Horace Walpole to Lady Ossory on 7th February 1783. #OTD #OnThisDay #CapabilityBrown https://t.co/IQl5N5TFLH
1753-63 #CapabilityBrown planned a shrubbery & later dug Long Pond @ #Belhus #Thurrock #Essex for Baron Dacre - “meddling with my water in ye lower part of my Park” "to make a ten acre pool where now there is a run of water in the lower part of the Park" https://t.co/z10tV3kn4H
'Mr Browne Gardener to His Majesty, Cornelian Intaglio [produced for] Henry Holland Esq From a picture by Nathaniel Dance Esq RA' by engraver #EdwardBurch. Holland married Bridget Brown’s eldest daughter in 1773. Added to bracelet in C19th Donated to @britishmuseum by descendants
#CapabilityBrown dined @alnwickcastle 1770 when visiting @KirkharleCourt & #Rothley. His foremen worked with large teams of gardeners & labourers there. In 1773 Thos Biesley lead team of 78 men, while duke’s gardener Thos Call worked in #HulnePark with 60. https://t.co/GWmbnlqW0l
'Mr Browne Gardener to His Majesty, Cornelian Intaglio [produced for] Henry Holland Esq. From a picture by Nathaniel Dance, Esq RA' by engraver #EdwardBurch. Holland married Bridget, Brown’s eldest daughter in 1773. Donated to @britishmuseum by descendants https://t.co/YuLBAXeljp
Prince of Wales decided to remodel Brighton Pavilion & commissioned #HumphryRepton to produce Red Book showing it redone in oriental style. @BrightonMuseums have digitised book https://t.co/ebXfKQFTLH @HumphryRepton’s designs weren’t used & eventually #JohnNash was commissioned
@NTCroome @Historic_Houses #CapabilityBrown created landscape of lakes & woodland @UgbrookePark #Devon for 4th Lord Clifford https://t.co/K7fyljocfG Road route @Ugbrooke changed @ his suggestion so it would be out of sight of house. More in our #map https://t.co/j0C8jGkz2H #NationalWalkingMonth @VisitDevon
#CapabilityBrown dined @alnwickcastle 1770 when visiting @KirkharleCourt & #Rothley. His foremen worked with large teams of gardeners & labourers there. In 1773 Thos Biesley lead team of 78 men, while duke’s gardener Thos Call worked in #HulnePark with 60. https://t.co/GWmbnlIwRT