For the three influential designers and innovators of in the 18th century English Landscape Movement - Charles Bridgeman, William Kent & ‘Capability’ Brown - write a brief paragraph to describe the style - form, layout, content, purpose - of their landscapes.

Charles Bridgeman revolutionized garden landscapes in terms of style, design and content. With Bridgeman’s invention of the ha-ha (a downward slope that meets a vertical wall intended to keep unwanted animals out of the landscape) came a new way to view a landscape completely unobstructed. This new concept of creating gardens to look like landscape paintings, sweeping slopes and clear views, was completely different then past baroque styles where garden elements were much more condensed and man-made. Although Bridgeman’s gardens did contain some baroque features, including parterres, avenues, and geometric lakes, he was most known for his transitional and progressive structures, which included garden buildings and long winding paths. 

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Despite his little knowledge of horticulture, William Kent became Charles Bridgeman’s predecessor, and took many of his new ideas and concepts for landscape design a step further. Kent, considered one of the originators of the English landscape garden, used a style of ‘natural’ gardening, so that although the land he worked with was heavily manipulated, the landscape looked completely natural, as if it was wild nature which created the scenery rather than the careful and meticulous planning that was really involved. Kent viewed all nature as a garden, and adapted the concept of ‘borrowed scenery’, creating focal points and clear views in order to truly take advantage of all the landscape had to offer.

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In 1741, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown joined the gardening staff at Stowe, Buckinghamshire, and served under William Kent. Capability Brown’s style was considered ‘garden-less’ gardening, blurring the lines of natural and man-made even more-so than William Kent. His landscapes were indistinguishable from wild nature, despite the fact that they were perfectly constructed. Brown used long winding paths so that the viewer was never bored, but constantly seeing new features around the bend. Brown also used borrowed landscapes, and the deliberate placement of clusters of trees to create focal points in the garden structures, as well as creating a certain sense of being truly immersed in nature. With Brown’s designs, the garden at Stowe became a centerpiece for English landscape gardens. 

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