Exhibition
Kate Whiteford: False Perspectives
18 Jun 2016 – 18 Sep 2016
Mercer Art Gallery
Harrogate, United Kingdom
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Aske hall, view from the south by George Cuit (senior) (1743-1818) Credit: Zetland Collection
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Capability Brown by Nathaniel Dance c.1773 © National Portrait Gallery, London NPG6049
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Cascade at Scampston by Francis Nicholson c.1790s. Courtesy of Legard Family of Scampston
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Harewood House from the South c.1798 by J.M.W. Turner. By kind permission of the Executors of the 7th Earl of Harewood and the Trustees of the Harewood House Trust .
Exhibition
Noble Prospects: Capability Brown & the Yorkshire Landscape
25 Jun 2016 – 11 Sep 2016
Event times
Opening times are 10am – 5pm, Tuesday to Saturday and 2 – 5pm on Sundays. Closed Mondays except Bank Holidays.
Cost of entry
Free entry
Address
- Swan Road
- Harrogate
- HG1 2SA
- United Kingdom
Event map
The first exhibition dedicated to the Yorkshire landscapes of this legendary designer, marking the 300th anniversary of his birth.
About
The great landscape gardener Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783) changed the face of eighteenth century English parkland, creating a magical world of woods, water and swathes of green that lives on until this day in Yorkshire.
Capability Brown is the creator of some of Yorkshire’s most admired landscapes, and this unique exhibition brings together an intriguing collection of artworks, which reveal more about the designer and his designs. Drawn largely from Yorkshire collections the show features portraits of Capability Brown and his Yorkshire clients, original plans, drawings and documents by Brown, paintings of his creations as well as works of art that inspired his landscapes.
'Noble Prospects: Capability Brown & the Yorkshire Landscape' is at the Mercer Gallery, Harrogate from 25 June. The exhibition is supported by Savills, The Landscape Agency, Saffery Champness, Coutts, Harrogate Borough Council, The Capability Brown Festival 2016, ArtFund (through a Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Research Grant), Natural England, The Calmcott Trust, The Friends of the Mercer Art Gallery, Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society, Historic Houses Associations Yorkshire Friends, Mr & Mrs J. Samuel and private donors.
