For the three most influential designers and innovators of in the18th 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

Charles Bridgeman was one of the early landscape designers during the English Landscape Movement. He worked to blend the formal features of previous eras, such as geometric paths and parterres, with more the more fluid and natural features of the landscape he placed them in, making the gardens largely transitional. One of Bridgeman’s largest legacies was the “ha-ha”, a dividing tool used to utilize a “borrowed landscape” by creating a hidden division (in the form of a sunken fence or ditch) between the designed landscape and the natural surroundings, thus letting nature become part of the garden view, without allowing it to infringe upon it (in the form of trespassing animals).

 

An example of a "ha-ha"
https://paisleypedlar.wordpress.com/2013/06/05/a-very-secret-garden/

William Kent

Though he was viewed as an unreliable character, and was less practical than many of his contemporaries, William Kent had the ability to create beautiful, natural-appearing landscapes. Kent specialized in drawing inspiration from both art and nature to create these vast landscapes, and was a leader of the “picturesque” style of garden design. He strove to make natural-appearing gardens that ultimately resembled paintings, using the works of French painters Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lourrain. Despite their natural appearance, these gardens were highly planned, with every placement and potential viewing angle of included features being intentional.

Stowe, designed by William Kent
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/stowe/things-to-see-and-do/

Lancelot “Capability” Brown

“Capability” Brown continued with the natural emphasis on landscape design, sourcing his inspiration from the surroundings and the English landscape itself. Brown was known for landscapes that were so carefully designed to imitate nature that they were often not recognized as man-made. Referring to this, Sir Horace Walpole was quoting as saying “Such was the effect of his [Brown’s] genius that when he was the happiest man he will be least remembered, so closely did he copy nature that his works will be mistaken.”

Highclere Park, a "Capability" Brown landscape
http://www.lizlake.com/projects/highclere-castle/