The patron himself died in 1935.

As time went on, Bartlett's elderly former patrons and pro-censorship activists died.

An unsuspecting patron had died of anaphylactic shock at the table after a single bite.

He had high hopes of painting more for the elector, but his patron died the same year, so Coenraet returned to the Netherlands.

Now those elder patrons have mostly died.

Still worse, his patron, Pope Damasus, had died several weeks before.

His patron died in 1742, and six years later Philips returned to London, where he died.

The same year, his second patron, Maharani of Reeva died.

He had risen to be first, poised for the next vacancy, when his patron died.

Cristofori's patron, Prince Ferdinando, died at the age of 50 in 1713.