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Jan 27, 1801 Died on 23 Jan 1873 (aged 71)
American painter
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About John Goffe Rand
- John Goffe Rand (1801–1873) lived and worked in Boston, London, and New York as a portrait painter and inventor.
- Rand invented and patented the first collapsible artist's paint tube.The tin tube allowed unused oil paint to be stored and used later without drying out.
- In 1841, Rand patented the invention with the United States Patent Office.
- He went on to patent several later improvements.
- Renoir said “Without tubes of paint, there would have been no Impressionism.”Other later inventions by Rand were not as widely received, and most of his ideas were not financially successful.
