The Haworth Art Gallery is a public art gallery"Haworth Art Gallery"
on the website of the

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Borough Council located in

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, northwest England, and is the home of the largest collection in

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from the studio of

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. The museum, a Tudor-style house, was originally built in 1909 to be the home of William Haworth, a manufacturer of

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. The house was designed by

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(1862–1926), a York architect known as "the Yorkshire Lutyens". It was bequeathed to the people of Accrington in 1920,"Haworth art Gallery"
on ArtFund.org and stands in nine acres of parkland on the south side of Accrington Town Centre. The Haworth's Tiffany collection is the largest outside the

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, with almost every type of Tiffany glass, including 140 pieces, including

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tiles, jewels, samples and

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s. It was the gift of Joseph Briggs, a design apprentice who left Accrington at 17 to emigrate to the

, where he worked for Tiffany for 40 years from about 1892. In 1933, he sent his Tiffany collection home. 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

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s, 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

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and

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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

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s and

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s including works by

Frederic, Lord Leighton Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subjec ...

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John Frederick Herring John Frederick Herring Sr. (12 September 1795 – 23 September 1865), also known as John Frederick Herring I, was a painter, sign maker and coachman in Victorian England.Listed buildings in Accrington Accrington is a town in Hyndburn, Lancashire, England. It contains 43 listed buildings, which are designated by Historic England and recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, two are listed at Grade II*, the middle grade ...

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External links

Official website

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