The Haworth Art Gallery is a public art gallery[2] located in Accrington, Lancashire, northwest England, and is the home of the largest collection in Europe of Tiffany glass from the studio of Louis Comfort Tiffany.[2] The museum, a Tudor-style house, was originally built in 1909 to be the home of William Haworth, a manufacturer of textiles. The house was designed by Walter Brierley (1862–1926), a York architect known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens". It was bequeathed to the people of Accrington in 1920,[3] and stands in nine acres of parkland on the south side of Accrington Town Centre.
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  Location within the Borough of Hyndburn | |
| Established | 21 September 1921[1] |
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| Location | Accrington, Lancashire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°44′28″N 2°21′18″W / 53.7411°N 2.3550°W |
| Type | Art gallery, museum and park |
| Collections | Tiffany glass Oil paintings and watercolours |
| Owner | Hyndburn Borough Council |
| Website | www |
The Haworth's Tiffany collection is the largest outside the United States, with almost every type of Tiffany glass, including 140 pieces, including Favrile glass tiles, jewels, samples and mosaics.[2] It was the gift of Joseph Briggs, a design apprentice who left Accrington at 17 to emigrate to the United States,[2] where he worked for Tiffany for 40 years from about 1892. In 1933, he sent his Tiffany collection home.[2]
The collection is on permanent public display in four themed-rooms: 'Tiffany and Interior Design', 'Tiffany and the Past', 'Tiffany and Nature', and 'The Tiffany Phenomenon'. Notable in the Gallery's Tiffany collection are over 70 vases, including a group of 'Millefiore Paperweight' and 'Intaglio' or cut-glass examples, 'flowerform' vases, vases shaped like vegetables, 'Cypriote' and 'Tel-El-Amarna' vases inspired by Roman and Egyptian examples. There are also samples relating to decorative schemes Briggs was involved with, and his 'Sulphur-crested Cockatoos' mosaic.
The museum also has a collection of mainly 19th-century oil paintings and watercolours including works by Frederic, Lord Leighton, Claude Joseph Vernet, John Frederick Herring and others.
See also
editReferences
edit- Notes
- ^ The Haworth Art Gallery: Information sheet, accessed 15 November 2014
- ^ a b c d e "Haworth Art Gallery" Archived 21 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine on the website of the Hyndburn Borough Council
- ^ "Haworth art Gallery" on ArtFund.org
External links
edit- Official website Archived 21 June 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- Virtual Tour