Louis C. Tiffany Biography and Portrait

Louis C. Tiffany Portrait circa 1908 via loc.gov

Louis C. Tiffany, Noted Artist, Dies
Article by the New York Times dated Jan 18, 1933

Louis Comfort Tiffany, artist and philanthropist, president of the Tiffany Studios, 46 West Twenty-third Street, and son of the founder of Tiffany & Co., jewelers, of which he was, himself, a vice president and director, died at 6:45 o’clock last night at his residence, 27 East Seventy- second Street, an apartment house which he designed. He had been ill for ten days with pneumonia. He was 84 years old.

Surviving are a son, Charles L. Tiffany, and four daughters, Mrs. Graham Lusk, Mrs. Rodman Gilder, Mrs. Frank Weld, all of this city, and Mrs. Dorothy T. Burlingham of Vienna.

The funeral service will be held privately at the convenience of the family.

Louis Comfort Tiffany was among the best known of American artists. He was born in New York on Feb. 18, 1848, a son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, the jeweler, and Mrs. Harriet Olivia Young Tiffany. He studied art under George Inness and Samuel Coleman in New York and under Leon Bailly in Paris. Yale University conferred an honorary A. M. degree on him in 1903.

Mr. Tiffany’s paintings in oils and water-colors were chiefly of Oriental scenes. He also executed decorative work and is best known for his work in glass. He devised new formulas for decorative designs in this medium know as “Tiffany Favrile glass.” It was produced by the Tiffany Studios, of which he was president and art director.

Mr. Tiffany also was vice president and director of Tiffany & Co., jewelers, and vice president and director of Tiffany & Co. Safe Deposit Company.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0218.html

Residence of Louis C. Tiffany circa 1900 from Over one hundred selected views of Greater New York
Published 1900