Possible Clues:

• Artist's brush, first to be confiscated in China
• Artist almost failed to capture a sunset, in the end
• Artistic Frenchman has dull children rejecting university
• 'Jazz' artist Henri
• Mike arranged siesta for artist
• French modern artist
• Henri who was a leader of the Fauvist movement
• Swirling sea mist depicted by French painter
• French painter of dancers
• 'Three Bathers' painter Henri