Painter draws crone into ring (7)
I believe the answer is:
chagall
'painter' is the definition.
(Marc Chagall)
'crone into ring' is the wordplay.
'crone' becomes 'hag' (synonyms).
'into' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'ring' becomes 'call' (synonyms).
'hag' put inside 'call' is 'CHAGALL'.
'draws' acts as a link.
I am not very happy about this link. It may be part of another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for chagall that I've seen before include "Marc --, Russian artist" , "Marc --, Russian-French artist" , "Russian-born painter" , "He painted" , "Marc -, twentieth century Russian-born French artist" .)