| CHARDIN | French master of still life and genre scenes such as The Buffet, Lady Sealing a Letter, Woman Taking Tea, Soap Bubbles and Basket of Wild Strawberries (7) |
| GREUZE | Jean-Baptiste -; painter of portraits and genre scenes whose works include The Lazy Boy, Broken Eggs and The Guitarist (6) |
| PRYNNE | "The Scarlet Letter" woman |
| STEEN | Dutch artist whose genre scenes often carry moralising messages derived from emblem books (5) |
| HESTER | "Scarlet Letter" woman |
| SUNFLOWERS | Series of still-life paintings (French, Tournesols) produced by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh between 1888 and 1889 (10) |
| VANGOGH | Vincent, Dutch painter noted for his series of still life paintings Sunflowers (3,4) |
| PEAR | Bit of still life |
| MILLET | Artist of the Barbizon school who painted French rural scenes such as The Potato Harvest, The Gleaners, Shepherdess with her Flock and Noonday Rest (6) |
| PAULDELAROCHE | French artist, painter of dramatic history scenes, such as The Execution of Lady Jane Grey (completed in 1833) |
| NASH | Painter of English rural scenes such as Autumn Berkshire, Winter Evening, Wormingford and The Flooded Meadow whose brother Paul was a member of the Slade School of Fine Art (4) |
| PISSARRO | Impressionist noted for rural scenes such as The Harvest, Haymaking, Eragny and The Vegetable Garden as well as his Montmartre cityscape series (8) |
| OPIE | Cornish artist noted for portraits and depictions of historical scenes, such as The Murder of Rizzio |
| MORISOT | Artist noted for her oil, pastel and watercolour studies of women, children and waterside scenes such as Chasing Butterflies, Girl in a Boat, with Geese and Summer's Day (7) |
| BYATT | A S ___, author of the novels Still Life and The Virgin in the Garden (5) |
| CLOUDSCAPE | A picturesque mass of mare'stails or other "nubes"; or, a painting of said scene, such as any one of those executed by John Constable (10) |
| TISSOT | Artist who painted Victorian social scenes such as Holyday (The Picnic) and The Ball on Shipboard (6) |
| STOPPER | A plug for sealing a hole, especially in the neck of a bottle (7) |
| SKATER | A pond or water ___ is a predatory insect of the Gerridae family that hunts on the surface of still water (6) |
| CROSSWORDS | Theme (and genre) of this puzzle |
