during the 19th century he was widely criticised, but during the twentieth century his reputation rose again. tom turner has suggested that the latter resulted from a favourable account of his talent in marie-luise gothein's "history of garden art" which predated christopher hussey's positive account of brown in "the picturesque" (1927). dorothy stroud wrote the first full monograph on capability brown, fleshing out the generic attributions with documentation from country house estate offices.