| LESSIX | Group of French composers (minus Louis Durey) depicted in a painting by Jacques-Emile Blanche (3,3) |
| AURIC | Member of the group of French composers known as 'Les Six' (5) |
| TUNESMITH | Composer minus the lyricist ultimately useless |
| OSBERT | A forename of the author of A Place of One's Own who is depicted in a painting by John Singer Sargent with his parents and his siblings Edith and Sacheverell Sitwell (6) |
| RUSKIN | Depicted in a painting by John Everett Millais and portrayed by Greg Wise in Effie Gray, a Victorian |
| MARAT | French revolutionary leader whose assassination in a bath by Girondin sympathiser Charlotte Corday is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (5) |
| HIKING | Depicted in a painting by James Walker Tucker, an outdoor pursuit of strenuous walks in the countryside (6) |
| SABINE | "The Intervention of the ___ Women" (painting by Jacques-Louis David) |
| FAUVES | Members of a group of French painters that included Matisse, Vlaminck and Derain |
| AURORA | Depicted in a painting by Herbert James Draper, the Roman goddess of the dawn with the Greek equivalent Eos (6) |
| RENNIE | John -; engineer who designed the original Waterloo Bridge, the opening of which is depicted in a painting by John Constable (6) |
| SOCRATES | Greek philosopher known through the writings of Plato and Xenophon whose death by hemlock poisoning is depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (8) |
| NIOBE | Daughter of Tantalus depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (5) |
| ANDROMACHE | Wife of Hector depicted in a painting by Jacques-Louis David (10) |
| AMBUSH | Suddenly attack group of French submarines going west (6) |
| DUBOIS | Name, old, is name of French composer (6) |
| FRANCK | Open sound of French composer (6) |
| HALEVY | French composer's verse penned by rock-and-roll pioneer |
| UNCAGE | A French composer's release |
| RAMEAU | French composer's musical academy on the water in Paris (6) |
