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A Chronology of Louis C. Tiffany and Tiffany Studios
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Louis Tiffany at the age of 23
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Dignity in Servitude, one of six watercolors by Tiffany displayed at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition
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Leaded glass screen in the White House
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Interior of the H.O. Havemeyer mansion

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The medals awarded to the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
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Tiffany's booth at the 1900 Paris Exposition
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Laurelton Hall
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Mosaic curtain in the National Theater, Mexico City
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Tiffany Studios showroom, Madison Avenue and 45th Street, New York City, ca. 1910
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           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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