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LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY (1848- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 966 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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