| HOLBEIN | Opening with key, joining trendy court painter (7) |
| ESCAPED | Bolted door's opening with key, at first |
| RAEBURN | Portrait painter who was appointed King George IV's Scottish court painter in 1823 (7) |
| KNELLER | As court painter, could he ring the monarch? (7) |
| VANDYCK | Artist whose works include Self Portrait with a Sunflower, Lord John Stuart and his Brother, Lord Bernard Stuart and a number of portraits of Charles I as his court painter (3,4) |
| TENIERS | Noted for his Brouwer-like depictions of peasants in taverns, court painter to Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, who was also the custodian of said archduke's art gallery (7) |
| CHANCE | Opening with key, he can wrongfully enter (6) |
| GAPE | Stare at opening with key (4) |
| LISLE | Lock's opening with key? It's for stocking material |
| GOYA | Francisco ---, Spanish painter and printmaker, a court painter to the Spanish Crown (4) |
| WILKIE | David, Scottish genre and portrait painter and court painter to William IV (6) |
| ISABEY | Jean, French portrait painter and miniaturist who was a court painter to Napoleon (6) |
| RAMSAY | Scottish portraitist whose linguistic abilities enabled him to converse in German with George III as said king's court painter (6) |
| ANTHONYVAN | Flemish artist who was court painter to Charles I of England from 1632-41 (7,3) |
| GERARD | Baron Francois ___, Napoleonic court painter (6) |
| LOVELY | Stunning court painter captures old victor (6) |
| SOLELY | Singularly very good court painter |
| LIKELY | Promising court painter capturing one king |
| LONELY | Court painter defends working by himself |
| ELY | See court painter beheaded |
