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.

Haworth Art Gallery

Location within the Borough of Hyndburn
Established	21 September 1921 (1921-09-21)[1]
Location	Accrington, Lancashire, England
Coordinates	53.7411°N 2.3550°W / 53.7411; -2.3550
Type	Art gallery, museum and park
Collections	Tiffany glass Oil paintings and watercolours
Owner	Hyndburn Borough Council
Website	www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/hag

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

• Listed buildings in Accrington

References

Notes

External links

• Official website
• Virtual Tour