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LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY (1848- )

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LOUIS COMFORT
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TIFFANY (1848- )  ,
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American artist, son of
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Charles L .
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Tiffany, was
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born in New
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York
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City, on the 18th of
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February 1848 . He was a
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pupil of
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George
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Inness and of
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Samuel Coleman, New York, and of
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Leon
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Bailly,
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Paris . He became a member of the Society of American Artists (1877), of the
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National
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Academy of
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Design (188o), of the American
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Water Color Society, and of the Societe Nationale
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des
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Beaux Arts, Paris . He travelled extensively in
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Europe, and painted in oil and water-
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colour, but subsequently devoted himself to decorative
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glass
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work . He became
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president and
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art director of the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Co., and produced a " Favrile " glass, of unusual beauty of colour .

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