Noun : a patron of the arts; patrons of the annual Democratic dance.    From Dictionary.com. 

Thus by my talents, honesty, and acuteness, I had, considering I was a poor patronless outcast, raised for myself very powerful protectors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference

We have the lamentations of the man without a country, of the friendless wanderer, of the forlorn wife, of the patronless singer, of the wave-tossed mariner; and these laments are always associated with the grand Northern landscapes of which little had been made in ancient literatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Syria becomes isolated; Hezbollah and Hamas, patronless.    From Wordnik.com.  [BitsBlog] Reference

He was poor and patronless then, as he had continued ever since, with slender likelihood of ever possessing L.100 of his own, much less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852] Reference

If any wonder that this treatise comes patronless into the world, let such know that dedications begin now-a-days to grow out of fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

The story so far: a patronless court functionary turned a man of letters and an Academician among other such handpicked literati writes a lame poem of clear intent but no literary merit that is trashed by the premier literary scholar of his age, Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, a man not only of considerable talent, but also of quick and merciless wit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quizzing the Anonymous] Reference

"So, my friend, you see what our art can do even for the humblest professor, when I, a poor, friendless, patronless artist, can thus indulge myself by forgetting the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Disowned — Complete] Reference