Prometheus Antiques has dated this piece to the 1920s.
The painting is obviously a sketch but was never meant to be anything else as the gallery label is still on the reverse.

Fletcher J Mercer was a landscape, flower and portrait artist exhibiting between 1901 and 1922. He exhibited primarily with the New English Art Club but also showed at the International Society, the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Scottish Academy.

The painting has been professionally cleaned and is in excellent condition. It is framed in the original gilt frame which retains the gallery label and description for Chapman Brothers of Chelsea.
A great artwork with huge decorative appeal. C.1910.
Overall sizes in inches, including frame: 12 1/4 by 14 1/2
Prometheus Antiques has dated this piece to the 1920s.
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