Painter’s change in direction after capturing the writer following completion of chapter (7)
I believe the answer is:
vermeer
'painter's' is the definition.
(Johannes Vermeer, 1632-1675)
'capturing the writer following completion of chapter' is the wordplay.
'capturing' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the writer' becomes 'me' (the person who wrote the clues).
'following' becomes 'vere' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'completion of' says to take the final letters.
The final letter of 'chapter' is 'r'.
'me' inserted within 'vere' is 'vermee'.
'vermee'+'r'='VERMEER'
'change in direction after' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for vermeer that I've seen before include "He painted The Girl with the Pear Earring" , "Painter of 18" , "Girl with a Pearl Earring artist" , "Dutch painter, 1673-75" , "Jan ---, Delft painter" .)