LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY (1848- )
Online Encyclopedia
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 TIFFANY (1848- )
, American artist, son of Charles L
.
Tiffany, was born in New York City, on the 18th of 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 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 (188o), 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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