The following year, art patron Stephen Clark donated House by the Railroad ( 1925 ) to the Museum of Modern Art, the first oil painting it acquired for its collection.

In 1932, the Mexican socialist artist Diego Rivera ( whose sponsor was Museum of Modern Art and whose patron at the time was Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, the wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr .), was commissioned by their son Nelson Rockefeller to create a color fresco for the wall in the lobby of the then RCA Building.

He was also patron of the The Derby Town and County Museum and Natural History Society, which founded Derby Museum and Art Gallery 1836.

In 2006, O ' Hara attended the Grand Reopening and Expansion of the Flying Boats Museum in Foynes, Limerick, Ireland, as a patron of the museum.

Of the same years is the Crucifixion in the Royal Museum of Antwerp: his early works shows a marked Flemish influence, which it is now understood he derived from his master Colantonio and from works by Rogier van der Weyden and Jan van Eyck that belonged to Colantonio's patron, Alfonso V of Aragon ; his biographer Vasari remarked that Antonello saw at Naples an oil painting by Jan Van Eyck ( the " Lomellini Tryptych ") belonging to King Alfonso V of Aragon ; Vasari's further narrative, that being struck by the new method, set out for the Netherlands to acquire a knowledge of the process from Van Eyck's disciples is discredited today.

Away from horticulture, Titchmarsh is involved with the Cowes Inshore Lifeboat, where he is a patron, and with the National Maritime Museum, where he is a trustee.

* Lillie P. Bliss ( 1864 – 1931 ), American art collector and patron, founder of Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney ( January 9, 1875 – April 18, 1942 ) was an American sculptor, art patron and collector, and founder in 1931 of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.

The Museum of Country Life is housed in an old bakery in the service area of the castle and is sporadically open during the summer, the patron festivals, and at events organized in the castle.

Mr. Plummer is a patron of Theatre Museum Canada.

In addition, PRCUA is the principal patron of the Polish Museum of America, the largest ethnic museum in America located in Chicago, Illinois.

Originally from Newark, New Jersey, Fat is a faithful patron of the Leyendecker Museum.

Many of these paintings were owned by Williams ' patron, James Bruckner Jr., and were on permanent display at the Movie World Cars of the Stars Museum.

The left wing depicts Etienne Chevalier with his patron saint St. Stephen ( now in in Gemäldegalerie, Berlin ) while the right wing shows a pale Virgin and Child surrounded by red and blue angels ( Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp ).

A patron of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, he served as President of the Metropolitan Opera from 1892 until his death.

He made a copy of the Entombment of Christ, recommended that his patron, the Duke of Mantua, purchase The Death of the Virgin ( Louvre ), and was instrumental in the acquisition of The Madonna of the Rosary ( Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ) for the Dominican church in Antwerp.

He is currently a promotor and patron of several Silesia-based cultural feasts and societies, including the Festiwal Filmów Kultowych, Festiwal Sztuki Reżyserskiej, Cultural Congress of the Upper Silesia, Council of Culture of the Silesian Voivodship, Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice () and Committee for the Construction of Silesian Museum.

The monastery was founded also to house the relics of St. Alexander Nevsky, patron of the newly-founded Russian capital ; however, the massive silver sarcophagus of St. Alexander Nevsky was relocated during Soviet times to the State Hermitage Museum where it remains ( without the relics ) today.

In December 2009, Palcy was the patron of the 20th anniversary of the organization at the Cinémathèque ( the French Museum of Cinema ) with Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand and director Costa Gavras.

* Bogdan Khanenko ( 1848 – 1917 )-collector and patron of the arts, his collection was moved to the Kiev Museum of Art and Industry after his death

The following year Cronenberg was named an honorary patron of the University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin.

He was a liberal patron of the recently formed Society of Jesus throughout Europe, for which he founded many new colleges.

His affiliations include the Royal Military College Club, Society of Experimental Test Pilots, Canadian Aeronautics and Space Institute, honorary patron of Lambton College, trustee of Lakefield College School, Board member of the International Space School Foundation, executive with the Association of Space Explorers.

He was a patron of the Macular Disease Society.

In recent years, the Choir has commissioned recorded works by contemporary composers such as John Tavener, William Mathias and Howard Goodall, also patron of Christ Church Music Society.

Her work as a patron was enduring and influential, notably in her contribution to the Contemporary Art Society during its early years.

He is also president of Emmaus UK, and patron of the Romany Society.

West is patron of The National Piers Society, a charity dedicated to preserving and promoting seaside piers.

He acted also as patron of the British Schools Exploring Society ( B. S. E. S.

He is also a patron of the Henry Jackson Society.

In March 2009, he joined Peter Sallis and Eric Sykes as a patron of the Macular Disease Society.

Returning to England at the end of 1880, Petrie wrote a number of articles and then met Amelia Edwards, journalist and patron of the Egypt Exploration Fund ( now the Egypt Exploration Society ), who became his strong supporter and later appointed him as Professor at her Egyptology chair at University College London.

He came from a wealthy and long-established Scots land-owning family and was a Whig MP, a Fellow of the Royal Society, an improving landlord, and a patron of Robert Burns.

She was appointed OBE in 1993, and CBE in 2004., she was a patron of The Beatrix Potter Society.

He is a patron of the Captive Animals Protection Society, a charity campaigning for an end to the use of animals in circuses, zoos and exotic pet trade.

He also set up the first agricultural training college in New South Wales and was the first patron of the New South Wales Agricultural Society.

He was the first patron of science in Australia, and as such was eulogised by Sir John Herschel when he presented Brisbane with the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1828.

* Michael Aspel-journalist and television presenter, patron of the Weybridge Society, awarded the Freedom of Elmbridge in recognition of his many campaigns and charities in the Borough

She is patron of several organizations dealing with social issues, such as the Abbeyfield House Society, the Hospice Association of Ontario, the Landmine Survivors Network ( later known as Survivor Corps ), the Ontario March of Dimes and the Yonge Street Mission.

In 1974, while her husband was Prime Minister, she created a storm by agreeing to become patron of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child.

The Royal Geological Society of Cornwall was founded in the town in 1814 and about 1817 was responsible for introducing a miner's safety tamping bar, which attracted the Prince Regent to become its patron.

Lord Deedes was patron of Hythe Civic Society, and the hounds of The East Kent Hunt are kennelled in nearby Elham.

* Maksymilian Jackowski ( 1815 – 1905 ), Polish activist, secretary-general of the Central Economic Society ( Centralne Towarzystwo Gospodarcze ), patron of the agricultural circles

He is a vice president of the East Cheshire Hospice and a patron of the local branch of the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.