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Louis Comfort Tiffany(February 18, 1848 – January 17, 1933),the celebrated jewelry and glass designeran .the son of Charles Lewis Tiffany, 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. He is best known for his work in stained glass.UK Tiffany used opalescent glass in a variety of colors and textures to create a unique style of stained glass. This can be contrasted with the method of painting in glass paint or enamels on colorless glass that had been the dominant method of creating stained glass for several hundred years in Europe.
Tiffany rings started out as a painter, but became interested in glassmakingand worked at several glasshouses in Brooklyn . In 1879, he joined with Candace Wheeler, Samuel Colman and Lockwood de Forest to form Louis Comfort Tiffany and Associated American Artists. Tiffany's leadership and talent, as well as by his father's money and connections, led this business to thrive.

A desire to concentrate on art in glass led to the breakup of the firm in 1885, when Tiffany chose to establish his own glassmaking firm later that same year. The first Tiffany Glass Company was incorporated on December 1, 1885, and in 1902 became known as the Tiffany Studios. In 1902 he became Tiffany jewelry company first Design Director, creating fantastic jewelry designs inspired both by nature and the art of other cultures.
Honors Won at Expositions
In 1893, at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, he received fifty-four medals.
In 1900 A gold medal was awarded to him and he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in Paris . Other honors Included the grand prix at the Paris Exposition
In 1901 gold medal at Buffalo Exposition and Dresden Exposition
In 1902 grand prix and special diploma at the Turin Exposition
In 1904 gold medal at the St. Louis Exposition

In 1907,gold at the Jamestown Expositionin
In 1909 ,grand prize at the Seattle Exposition
In 1915 , gold medal at the Panama Exposition
In 1926 ,gold medal at the Sesquicentennial Exposition
In 1919 ,he established the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation for art students at Oyster Bay and deeded to it his entire collection of paintings, glass and other art objects, together with a fund of $1,000,000, the income from which is used to maintain the institution. Its purposes, as outlined by Mr. Tiffany, are "art education, directed both to art appreciation and production within the scope of the industrial as well as the fine arts, and, as one means toward these educational purposes, the establishment and maintenance of a museum to contain objects of art."