On this day, February 18, 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany was born.

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Louis Comfort Tiffany



Tiffany c. 1908

Born: February 18, 1848; New York City, U.S.
Died: January 17, 1933 (aged 84); New York City, U.S.
Resting place: Green-Wood Cemetery
Education: Pennsylvania Military Academy, Eagleswood Military Academy
Known for: Favrile glass, Tiffany lamps

Louis Comfort Tiffany (February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933) was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau and Aesthetic movements. He was affiliated with a prestigious collaborative of designers known as the Associated Artists, which included Lockwood de Forest, Candace Wheeler, and Samuel Colman. Tiffany designed stained glass windows and lamps, glass mosaics, blown glass, ceramics, jewellery, enamels, and metalwork. He was the first design director at his family company, Tiffany & Co., founded by his father Charles Lewis Tiffany.

Early life

Louis Comfort Tiffany was born in New York City, the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, founder of Tiffany and Company, and Harriet Olivia Avery Young. He attended school at Pennsylvania Military Academy[3] in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His first artistic training was as a painter, studying under George Inness in Eagleswood, New Jersey and Samuel Colman in Irvington, New York. He also studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1866–67 and with salon painter Leon-Adolphe-Auguste Belly in 1868–69. Belly's landscape paintings had a great influence on Tiffany.

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Gallery



The Tree of Life stained glass



Sermon on the Mount at Arlington Street Church in Boston



Christ the Consoler at Pullman Memorial Universalist Church, Albion, NY



Collection of Tiffany Lamps from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts



Wisteria Table Lamp

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