Possible Clues:

• One into finance is enthralled by French painter and what he produced
• Advocate of controlling the supply of financial resources
• One who advocates an economic policy based on control of supply of currency
• Financial controller is into Impressionist paintings
• Wanting to control cash flow, painter is absorbed in his work
• Economic theorist ruined minor state
• Painter is absorbed in his work as economic expert
• Artist, one without time for such as Thatcher
• A sailor in fog like Friedman?
• Economic theorist is a torment given free rein