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Louis Comfort Tiffany

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY (1848-), American artist, son of Charles L. Tiffany, was born in New York City, on the 18th of February 1848. He was a pupil of George Inness and of Samuel Coleman, New York, and of Leon Bailly, Paris. He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1877), of the National Academy of Design (1880), of the American Water Color Society, and of the Societe Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris. He travelled extensively in Europe, and painted in oil and

water-colour, but subsequently devoted himself to decorative glass work. He became president and art director of the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co., and produced. a "Favrile" glass, of unusual beauty of colour.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Louis Comfort Tiffany'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​l/louis-comfort-tiffany.html. 1910.
 
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