Pancake fed the Spanish painter (7)

I believe the answer is:
bellini
'painter' is the definition.
Both the definition and answer are singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'pancake fed the spanish' is the wordplay.
'pancake' becomes 'blini' (blini is a kind of pancake).
'fed' means one lot of letters goes inside another (one word is 'fed' to another).
'the spanish' becomes 'el' ('the' in Spanish).
'blini' going around 'el' is 'BELLINI'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bellini that I've seen before include "member of painting family" , "Italian composer of operas such as Norma (1831)" , "Italian opera composer (Norma)" , "Champagne and peach cocktail" , "scorer" .)
