practised portrait painting for over ten years, before returning to London in 1751. In 1752, Mercier went to Portugal at the request of several English merchants. He did not long remain there, however, but came back to London, where he died in 1760. In August 2016, Mercier's painting Portrait of a Lady (1744) was one of the subjects for episode 19 in the 5th series of the BBC Television series Fake or Fortune? Mercier's daughter Charlotte was also an artist in her early life, before turning to a life of dissolution and dying in the St James Workhouse two years after her father's death. Gallery References Further reading Primary sources General studies Exhibition catalogues Additional notes Reference books External links Portraits by Philip Mercier at the National Portrait Gallery, London Paintings by Philip Mercier at Tate Britain Works by Mercier from Art.com Works by Mercier from Invaluable.com John Ingamells archive 1689 births 1760 deaths 18th-century English painters English male painters English etchers Huguenots 18th-century English male artists