Sentence examples for biggest patrons from inspiring English sources

In addition, women are among the biggest patrons and collectors of Middle Eastern art.

He had been its board president from 1977 to 1999, as well as one of its biggest patrons, and he had promised to donate his collection of folk art, including a version of Edward Hicks's "Peaceable Kingdom".

The symphony's concert hall, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, which opened in 2006, was saved from the auction block earlier this summer when one of the symphony's biggest patrons, Martha Ingram, stepped forward to stave off foreclosure.

Agents from the United States Postal Inspection Service arrested Mr. Esmerian, 70, a former board president of the Museum of American Folk Art and one of its biggest patrons, on Monday morning.

For several years the museum displayed a painting from Edward Hicks's "Peaceable Kingdom" series, a promised gift from Ralph O. Esmerian, one of the museum's biggest patrons and its board president from 1977 to 1999.

It's a very Vezzoli moment, involving as it does sex and glamour (he is a favourite with the fashion crowd, one of his biggest patrons being the woman to whom he refers as "my friend Mrs Prada").

If you were an artist, you had PATRONS, and the biggest PATRON was the church, and in Italy, that was the Vatican.

The biggest patron of the diamonds is the N.Y.

The federal government is PBS's biggest patron, and Mitchell was happy to accept.

His works have so far earned up to £6,000, his biggest patron being a Warsaw businesswoman.

"China reconfirmed that it remained the biggest patron of the North Korean regime.