FTP identify this landscape gardener who attained his nickname from the habit of extolling the "capabilities of improvement" in a landscape.
A student of William Kent, he rejected the Versailles school and emphasized the undulating lines of the English landscape instead of focusing on formal, geometric design.  His best known works are the grounds of Harewood House, Glamis Castle, and Blenheim Palace, where he employed his formula of damming rivers to make lakes in order to provide an impression of space.  FTP identify this landscape gardener who attained his nickname from the habit of extolling the "capabilities of improvement" in a landscape.
A student of William Kent, he rejected the Versailles school and emphasized the undulating lines of the English landscape instead of focusing on formal, geometric design.  
Lancelot "Capability" Brown