LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY (1848- )
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Originally appearing in Volume
V26,
Page 966
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
LOUIS COMFORT See also:TIFFANY (1848- )
, See also:American artist, son of See also:Charles L
.
See also:Tiffany, was See also:born in New See also:York See also:City, on the 18th of See also:February 1848
.
He was a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:George See also:Inness and of See also:Samuel Coleman, New York, and of See also:Leon See also:Bailly, See also:Paris
.
He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1877), of the See also:National See also:Academy of See also:Design (188o), of the American See also:Water Color Society, and of the Societe Nationale See also:des See also:Beaux Arts, Paris
.
He travelled extensively in See also:Europe, and painted in oil and water-See also:colour, but subsequently devoted himself to decorative See also:glass See also:work
.
He became See also:president and See also:art director of the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co., and produced a " Favrile " glass, of unusual beauty of colour
.
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