Italian painter floundering amid oil and gin (10)
I believe the answer is:
modigliani
'italian painter' is the definition.
'modigliani' can be an answer for 'painter' (I've seen this before). I'm not sure about the 'italian' bit.
'floundering amid oil and gin' is the wordplay.
'floundering' indicates an anagram (letters flounder or move around).
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'amid'+'oil'='amidoil'
'amidoil' put after 'gin' is 'ginamidoil'.
'ginamidoil' anagrammed gives 'MODIGLIANI'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for modigliani that I've seen before include "painter" , "artist" .)