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Tiffany Chronology
Louis Tiffany at the age of 23
Dignity in Servitude, one of six watercolors by Tiffany displayed at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition
Leaded glass screen in the White House
Interior of the H.O. Havemeyer mansion
The medals awarded to the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Tiffany's booth at the 1900 Paris Exposition
Laurelton Hall
Mosaic curtain in the National Theater, Mexico City
Tiffany Studios showroom, Madison Avenue and 45th Street, New York City, ca. 1910
Louis Comfort Tiffany, ca. 1925
1848
Louis Comfort Tiffany is born in New York City to Charles and Harriet Tiffany on February 18
1863-64
Tiffany attends Eagleswood Military Academy in Perth Amboy, NJ
1865
Tiffany leaves school to study under painter George Inness
1865-66
Tiffany makes his first trip to Europe, traveling to England, Ireland, France and Italy
1866
Tiffany admitted to antique classes at the National Academy of Design and befriends Samuel Colman, a painting instructor in the Academy
1868-69
Tiffany travels to Paris to study painting with Leon-Charles Bailly. Returns to New York City and lives in the YMCA across the street from the National Academy of Design
1870
Tiffany, together with the artist Robert Swain Gifford, travels to London, Paris, Madrid, Malaga, Gibraltar, Tangier, Malta, Sicily, Naples, Amalfi, Sorrento, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome and Florence
1871
Tiffany elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design
1872
Tiffany marries Mary Woodbridge Goddard
1873
Tiffany’s first child, Mary (May-May) Woodbridge Tiffany is born
1875
Tiffany experiments with glassmaking at Thill’s Empire State Flint Glass Works in Brooklyn
1876
Tiffany exhibits three oil paintings and six watercolors in the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition
1877
Samuel Colman persuades Tiffany to teach at the Society of Decorative Arts along with Candace Wheeler and Lockwood de Forest
1878
Tiffany moves from the YMCA to the Bella Apartments
Louis C. Tiffany and Company is formed and opens its first glasshouse, which burns down shortly thereafter
1880
Tiffany continues his glass experiments at the Heidt Glass Furnace in Brooklyn
1881
The interior decorating firm of Louis C. Tiffany and Company, Associated Artists is established and receives national acclaim for its work in the Seventh Regiment Armory, New York City
1882
The Associated Artists commissioned to do work for Mark Twain, Cornelius Vanderbilt II and Ogden Goelet and hired by President Chester Arthur to decorate several rooms in the White House
1883
The firm of Louis C. Tiffany and Company, Associated Artists is dissolved and Tiffany continues the business as Louis C. Tiffany and Company
1884
Tiffany’s wife, Mary Woodbridge Goddard Tiffany, dies
1885
Tiffany and family move from the Bella Apartments to his father’s new mansion on the corner of Madison Avenue and 72nd Street
1886
Tiffany marries Louise Wakeman Knox
1887
The Tiffany Glass Company is established with showrooms and workrooms at 333-335 4th Avenue, New York City
1889
Tiffany travels to Paris and visits Emile Gallé’s glass factory in Nancy
1892
Tiffany is commissioned to decorate the Henry O. Havemeyer mansion in New York City
The Tiffany Glass Company is reestablished as the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company. Tiffany and Arthur J. Nash purchase a building in Corona, Queens and convert it into a glasshouse to produce flat and blown Favrile glass
1893
The glasshouse is separated from the company and called the Stourbridge Glass Company, with Nash as its surpervisor
The Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company is awarded fifty-four medals for its display at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago
The uninsured glasshouse is destroyed by fire. It is quickly rebuilt with funding from new partners and Charles Tiffany
1894
Siegfried Bing, owner of the Paris gallery L’Art Nouveau, visits the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company and later becomes Tiffany’s exclusive distributor in Europe
Blown Favrile glass first displayed to the public
Tiffany registers “Favrile” as a trademark with the U.S. patent office
1897
Tiffany organizes foundry and metal shops at the Corona factory
1899
Major exhibition of Tiffany's work organized by Bing and displayed at the Grafton Galleries, London
1900
Tiffany exhibits Favrile glass, windows, lamps, mosaics and enamels at the Paris Exposition Universelle, where he is awarded a grand prize for applied arts and is appointed a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor
1901
Tiffany wins a grand prize at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York and also wins prizes at expositions in Dresden and Saint Petersburg
1902
Charles Tiffany dies and leaves his son about $5 million and a controlling interest in Tiffany and Company
Tiffany Studios, at 333-341 Fourth Avenue, is incorporated and the Stourbridge Glass Company is renamed Tiffany Furnaces
1903
Tiffany Studios introduces Favrile pottery
1904
Tiffany wins a gold medal at the Louisiana Purchase International Exposition and exhibits his own jewelry designs for the first time
Tiffany’s second wife, Louise Wakeman Knox Tiffany, dies of cancer
1905
Tiffany and family move to his new summer estate, Laurelton Hall, in Oyster Bay, New York
1907
Tiffany is awarded a gold medal at the Jamestown Exposition in Virginia
1909
Tiffany wins a grand prize for his exhibition in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle
1911
Tiffany Studios creates a glass mosaic curtain for the National Theater, Mexico City
1913
Tiffany hosts his Egyptian Fete for 300 guests to international acclaim
1914
The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany, an authorized biography written by Charles DeKay, is published in an edition of 492 with another 10 copies printed on vellum and with cast-bronze clasps
1915
Tiffany is awarded a gold medal at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
The Dream Garden mosaic, designed by Maxfield Parish, is installed in the Curtis Building, Philadelphia
1916
Tiffany hosts a 68th birthday party for 300 guests that features a masque called the Quest of Beauty and a retrospective exhibition of his artwork
1919
Tiffany retires from Tiffany Studios and creates the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation to aid and train young artists with a $1 million donation
1920
Tiffany Furnaces is reorganized and A. Douglas Nash is appointed to operate the new company of Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces
1924
Louis C. Tiffany Furnaces closes and is renamed the A. Douglas Nash Company
1932
Tiffany Studios files for bankruptcy
1933
Louis Comfort Tiffany dies on January 17 after a 10-day bout with pneumonia
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