### Clue: 14, bad one, employed by firm (8)
### Answer: HILLIARD 
 ### Explanation: Definition: 14
 [ILL(bad/unwell) + I(Roman numeral for "one")] **contained in**(employed by) HARD(firm/unyielding).
Answer: …, Nicholas, painter of Elizabethan England.
The artist's works: Himself and his Queen: