Patrons and Patronage explains the various types of professional support and prestige that both Robert and Clara earned throughout their careers, including: payment from royalty (for Clara’s performances at court); status by association (such as Robert’s pre-approved dedication to Oscar I of Sweden); and backing from fellow musicians (such as Ferdinand Hiller’s job referrals for Robert). Clara and Robert further established themselves and supported their family by balancing payment from these sources alongside public performances (for Clara) and publishing (mostly for Robert). The chapter also presents biographical evidence that neither musician boasted the kind of sustained professional relationships with royal and wealthy benefactors that supported some of their contemporaries and generations of previous artists – a fact that surely affected the genres in which Clara did and did not compose.