| ARTISTIC | Skilled in painting |
| ARTIST | Person skilled in painting, drawing or sculpture, for example; or, a performer in music (6) |
| MOVEMENT | Illusion or impression of motion in painting or sculpture; or, in horology, the internal wheelwork or calibre acting as a miniature engine in a watch or clock (8) |
| VERONESE | One absorbed in poetry and in painting |
| GESSO | Mixture of plaster and glue that is used in sculpture and as a background in painting |
| FIGURES | Representations of the human form in painting/sculpture; diagrams; or, numbers in accounting (7) |
| LANDSCAPE | Nudist regularly seen in the French promontory in painting (9) |
| IMPRESSIONISM | A 19th century movement in painting, originating in France (13) |
| SFUMATO | From the Italian for "gone up in smoke", a subtle blending of colours and tones in painting, of which Leonardo was the chief exponent (7) |
| LIMN | From "cast light on", word originally meaning "illuminate a manuscript with ornamental letters", later "draw or paint in watercolours", "suffuse or highlight" or "describe in painting or words" (4) |
| DIPTYCH | Pickpocket, extremely tubby, in front of church in painting on two panels (7) |
| SCUMBLE | Tone down, in painting |
| HEARTIER | Fellow more interested in painting getting stronger |
| PORTRAIT | Realist oddly supports Left in painting (8) |
| IODINE | A tincture used in painting (6) |
| ARDENT | Zealous study in painting (6) |
| SEASCAPE | Reportedly spots cloak in painting (8) |
| FINEARTS | Exquisite starburst represented in painting, sculpture etc |
| FRIEZE | Call for temporary halt in painting (6) |
| ARISTOCRAT | Noble actor is poorly represented in painting |
