Portrait of Capability Brown

Portrait of Capability Brown is an oil on canvas portrait painting by the English artist Nathaniel Dance-Holland, from 1769. It depicts the renowned landscape gardener Lancelot "Capability" Brown.^[1][2] Brown was known for promoting the English landscape garden design in contrast to the previously dominant and more regimented French landscape garden style. Dance-Holland was a noted portraitist of the Georgian era and a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Portrait of Capability Brown
Artist	Nathaniel Dance-Holland
Year	c. 1769
Type	Oil on canvas, portrait
Dimensions	75.2 cm × 63.2 cm (29.6 in × 24.9 in)
Location	National Portrait Gallery, London

Today the work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, in London, having been acquired in 1989.^[3] A version of the painting is at Burghley House in Cambridgeshire where Brown did work for the Earl of Exeter over many years.^[4]