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I have written a Wikipedia biography of Mears:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._J._Mears

I would be happy to update it with the information discussed here, if it can be cited to reliable...

Most sources give 1929 as the year of death, but even 1931 would not make him aged 49, if born in (or circa) 1890, as the same souces also say.

Any news on your five contenders?

Sadly that's not Mears; it's Gustave Caillebotte's 'Portrait de Georges Roman', painted in 1879; see...