| JACKSONPOLLOCK | American abstract expressionist painter best known for his style of drip painting |
| BEAUBRUMMELL | Man in Regency England known for his style and good looks (4,8) |
| APACHE | A rough chap noted for his style of dance (6) |
| POLLOCK | Whose "drip painting" No. 5, 1948 sold for a record $140m in 2005? (7) |
| POLESAPART | Eastern European drip painting like chalk and cheese! (5,5) |
| SPLAT | Sound heard when making a drip painting |
| ROTHKO | American abstract expressionist painter whose 1961 painting Orange, Red, Yellow sold in New York for $86m in 2012 (6) |
| XANTHUS | -- Russell Smith, painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War (7) |
| BARNETT | 1 and American Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor whose works include 1950's Eve (7,6) |
| LEEKRASNER | American abstract expressionist painter who got married to Jackson Pollock in 1945 |
| DAUMIER | French painter best known for his satirical lithographs of bourgeois society (1808-1879). |
| BENJAMINWEST | London-based American-born painter, best known for The Death of General Wolfe |
| ETTY | British painter, best known for his study of the nude (4) |
| KRASNER | Lee --, American abstract expressionist painter (7) |
| GRUNEWALD | German Renaissance painter best-known for his Isenheim Altarpeice (9) |
| JANVANEYCK | Flemish painter best known for the altarpiece The Adoration of the Lamb in Ghent |
| GIOVANNISEGANTINI | 19th-century Italian painter best known for his Alpine landscapes |
| HALS | Frans ___ (c 1581 - 1666), a Dutch painter best known for his portraits (4) |
| ALBERS | Josef, Germanborn painter best known for his series Homage to the Square (6) |
| LANDSEER | British painter, best known for The Monarch of the Glen (8) |