| HOLBEIN | Court painter under the reign of Henry VIII |
| THOMASCRANMER | Archbishop of Canterbury during the reign of Henry VIII |
| TUDORS | BBC historical drama with jonathan Rhys Meyers depicting the reign of Henry VIII, The ------ (6) |
| CRANMER | Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI who led the English Reformation (7) |
| HALFSOVEREIGN | Old English coin that was introduced in 1544 in the reign of Henry VIII (4,9) |
| BARBARA | In the reign of Henry VI, it is said that a chapel was founded at Norwich Guildhall and dedicated to St ..., the patron saint of prisoners (7) |
| TUDOR | Royal House whose occupation of the English throne began with the reign of Henry VII (5) |
| LAMBERT | --- Simnel, imposter who claimed to be the Earl of Warwick during the reign of Henry VII (7) |
| MCIV | Year in the reign of Henry IV |
| MCVI | Year in the reign of Henry I |
| MCCLIV | Year in reign of Henry III |
| COSIMO | Forename of the banker depicted in portraits by his court painter Agnolo Bronzino who was the first member of the Medici family to rule Florence (6) |
| AMANFOR | (and 13 down) Play - set during the reign of Henry VIII - which was turned into a 1966 film (7) |
| LEBRUN | Court painter to Louis XIV who decorated the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles (2,4) |
| 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) |
| LELY | The court painter left the city (4) |
| GOYA | Court painter of Charles IV of Spain |
| 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) |
| KNELLER | Godfrey - - -, leading portraitist of the late 17th and early 18th Centuries, court painter to monarchs from Charles II to George I (7) |
| GERARD | Trained at the studio of Jacques- Louis David, portraitist and court painter to Napoleon I and later Louis XVIII and Charles X (6) |
