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  • Through the influence of Mr. Lowndes, a Liverpool art-patron, Haydon received a commission to paint a picture of 'Christ blessing Little Children,' for the Blind Asylum at Liverpool, at a price of £400.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston

  • He left five sons, of whom the eldest, SIR THOMAS BARING (1772-1848), was a well-known art-patron and collector.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

  • Through the influence of Mr. Lowndes, a Liverpool art-patron, Haydon received a commission to paint a picture of 'Christ blessing Little Children,' for the Blind Asylum at Liverpool, at a price of L400.

    Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902

  • The Church failed as an art-patron, and the walls of cloister and cathedral furnished no new Bible readings to the unlettered.

    A Text-Book of the History of Painting John Charles Van Dyke 1894

  • The girls were not in the habit of paying much attention to chance visitors who came in from time to time and made the perilous passage among the easels, and lucky was the "parent" or "art-patron" who escaped without a streak of colour on some portion of his raiment.

    A Bookful of Girls Anna Fuller 1884

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