A portrait showing a smiling Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown has been selected as the new face of the 2016 festival celebrating the 300th anniversary of his birth.
Brown, often called the ‘father of landscape architecture,’ changed the national landscape and created a style which has shaped people’s picture of quintessential English countryside.
The Capability Brown Festival 2016 is the first-ever nationwide celebration of Brown’s extensive works. It aims to encourage a wider, more diverse audience to visit, learn about, and enjoy Brown’s landscapes.
It will run throughout 2016, bringing together a huge range of openings, events and exhibitions, and sparking new and exciting research into Brown and his works.
The Festival has been funded by a £911,100 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund with the wider project worth in the region of £1.7million. Much of this represents match funding, and funding in kind, from the Festival’s partners and supporters.
The portrait of Brown chosen as the new face of the Festival was painted by Richard Cosway, probably between 1770 and 1775.
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