| BOUCHER | First painter to Louis XV whose works include The Rising of the Sun, Dreaming Shepherdess and depictions of his patron Madame de Pompadour (7) |
| DELINEATE | Describe and depict (9) |
| STATUE | "240": the height in meters of the world's tallest of these, which is located in Gujarat and depicts Indian statesman Vallabhbhai Patel |
| MOUNTAINRANGE | What each set of circled letters spells ... and depicts |
| LOTUS | Team ..... , F1 team from 2012-15 whose drivers included Kimi Raikkonen (5) |
| LEIGHTON | First painter to be given a peerage in 1896 |
| NORTH | From a word meaning "left, below", the cardinal direction to one's left when facing the rising of the star central to our solar system (5) |
| EXORTU | The rising of the sun or stars (abl.) |
| EAST | Towards the rising of the sun |
| ASHEN | How onlookers must have looked at the rising of The Phoenix? (5-5) |
| FACED | How onlookers must have looked at the rising of The Phoenix? (5-5) |
| LEBRUN | Court painter to Louis XIV who decorated the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles (2,4) |
| STRAVINSKY | Composer noted for pieces such as Fireworks, The Faun and the Shepherdess and the ballet Firebird (1 |
| ROCKET | The herb arugula; a firework; the rising of a game bird when flushed; or, with "sweet", dame's-violet or mother-of-the-evening with nightscented honesty-like blooms (6) |
| ISAAK | Russian artist Brodsky, the first painter awarded the Order of Lenin |
| POTTER | Mycologist, shepherdess and watercolourist whose illustrated books based on anthropomorphic bunnies, kittens, squirrels and other country creatures have sold some 250 million copies since 1902 (6) |
| ANTHILL | A rising of the workers |
| ILIAD | Rising of the Irish parliament after one epic (5) |
| FLOW | Rising of the tide |
| IMPRESSIONIST | I am a reporter, one engaged with first painter of a sort (13) |
