Possible Clues:

• Artist captured a horse, typical Gauguin subject
• Maori cousin
• Painter securing a houseboat's bow for islander
• Pacific islander volunteers to strike Scotsman perhaps
• Islander in army inflicted blow on Scot maybe
• Islander Venetian artist has captured I see!
• Islander, one who painted outside a hotel
• Papeete native
• Person from a French Pacific island
• Islander a Venetian artist located outside a hotel