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John Burroughs School
Distance: 1.3 Mi755 S Price Rd
63124 Saint Louis -
Boody Fine Arts Inc
Distance: 3.6 Mi10706 Trenton Ave
63132 Saint Louis -
Ivey Selkirk Auctioneers
Distance: 3.3 Mi7447 Forsyth Blvd
63105-2103 Saint Louis -
Trotter Art - Color Image Inc.
Distance: 3.5 Mi12342 Conway Rd
63141-8627 Saint Louis -
Hayes Fine Arts
Distance: 3.7 Mi330 Ladue Woods Ct
63141 Saint Louis
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In 1859 Meeker settled in St. Louis, a city which then rivaled Cincinnati as a western center with a substantial base of art patronage. The Western Academy of Art was founded in St. Louis the year of Meeker’s arrival. The stated purpose of the academy was to form a collection of art, to establish an art school, and to provide gallery space in which artists could regularly display their work. Artists who had already found St. Louis to be a rich and rewarding environment in which to work and were established there by the time of Meeker’s arrival included Carl Wimar, Ferdinand Boyle, Manuel de Franca and Alban Jasper Conant.