| RAEBURN | Painter to tolerate returning vessel (7) |
| WORSHIP | Row when returning vessel for religious service (7) |
| INGRESS | French painter to point to entrance (7) |
| KNELLER | Godfrey - - -, leading portraitist of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, court painter to monarchs from Charles II to George I (7) |
| TIEPOLO | Painter to draw explorer (7) |
| SCRAPER | Used by painter to dump the Queen (7) |
| POLLOCK | Painter to cut back piece of hair (7) |
| HOLBEIN | Hans, court painter to King Henry VIII (7) |
| ELECTRA | Choose a painter to capture a complex character (7) |
| ARTISTE | A performer who takes a painter to the East (7) |
| PALETTE | Handy place for the painter to mix his colours (7) |
| MANETTE | Dickensian doctor; a painter to note (7) |
| 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) |
| CHIMERA | Might one correspond with a painter to create a wild fancy? (7) |
| 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) |
| HERRERA | Francisco, Seville-born artist appointed Painter to the King, Charles II, in 1672 (7) |
| MADEIRA | Wine caused painter to set about innkeeper at first |
| VERMEER | Painter to change course after touring classic city, nothing less |
| VANDYCK | Sir Anthony ___, Flemish artist who was court painter to Charles I of England |
| MONACO | State low to seize returning vessel |