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glad to do justice to Mr. Browne ; but he may be a gainer 

 by being reserved for some abler pen." This celebrated 

 landscape gardener died suddenly, in Hertford Street, May 

 Fair, on the 6th of February, 1783, on his return from a 

 visit to his old friend the Earl of Coventry. Mr. Browne, 

 though bred a common gardener at Stowe, possessed a culti- 

 vated mind, and his society was much courted. Joseph 

 Cradock, Esq. called him " a most agreeable, unassuming 

 man. 3 ' He amassed a large fortune. He was consulted by 

 most of the nobility and gentry, and the places he laid out 

 or altered, were, as Mr. Loudon observes, beyond all reck- 

 oning. Mr. Repton has given a list of his principal works. 



It has been the fate of this eminent master of landscape 

 embellishment, to be severely censured by some, and lavishly 

 praised by others. The late keen and consummate observer 

 of landscape scenery, Sir Uvedale Price, harshly condemns 

 the too frequent cold monotony and tameness of many of 

 Mr. Browne's creations, and his never transfusing into his 

 works any thing of the taste and spirit which prevail in the 

 poet Mason's precepts and descriptions ; and in one of his 

 acute, yet pleasant pages, he alludes to his having but one 

 and the same plan of operation ; Sangrado-like, treating all 

 disorders in the same manner. Perhaps the too general 

 smoothness and tameness of Mr. Browne's pleasure-grounds 

 ill accorded with Sir Uvedale's enthusiasm for the more sub- 

 lime views of forest scenery, rapid and stony torrents and 

 cascades, wild entangled dingles, and craggy breaks ; or with 

 the high and sublime notions he had imbibed from the rich 

 scenery of nature so often contemplated by him in the land- 

 scapes of Claude, or in those of Rubens, Caspar Poussin, 

 Salvator Rosa, or of Titian, " the greatest of all landscape 

 painters." Perhaps Sir Uvedale preferred " unwedgeable 

 and gnarled oaks," to " the tameness of the poor pinioned 

 trees of a gentleman's plantation, drawn up straight," or the 



