The St. Louis Mercantile LibraryAn Early Haven for Art in St. Louis
Bust of James Yeatman by R. Bringhurst, 1895
”Aurora” by Cessari, after Guido Reni, ca. 1850
Bust of Henry Shawby H.S. Kretschmer, 1878
View of St. Louis after the fire of 1849 by Lamasson, (possibly Henry Lewis) undated
“Beatrice Cenci” by Harriet Hosmer, 1856
Early photographs of the Mercantile Library, ca. 1920
Bust of Senator Thomas Hart Benton by J. Wilson McDonald, ca. 1854
Four Winnebago Leaders by Charles Deas, including portrait of Wa-kon- cha-hi-re-ga, all ca. 1842
Bust of Robert Burns by William Brodie, ca. 1865, with ornately carved pedestal illustrations depicting Burns’ life and work.
Bust of Sir Walter Scott by J. Hutchinson, 1872
Bust of John Napier Dyer by Robert Porter Bringhurst, 1890
Lithograph of the Steamer Robert E. Lee, ca. 1870
Bust of George Washington, after Houdon, ca. 1859
Portrait of James Yeatman, founder of the Mercantile Library, by A. Wunder, ca. 1860
Portrait of Auguste Chouteau, one of the founders of St. Louis, and one of the oldest of the Mercantile’s paintings, ca. 1810.
Portrait of William Clark by Chester Harding, ca. 1820
Portrait of Edward W. Johnston by Sarah Peale, 1865
Photograph of General William T. Sherman by Julius Bien, ca. 1888
Portrait of Joseph Charless, Jr. by W. Cogswell, 1859
Watercolors of scenes along the Mississippi, by James Godwin Scott, 1950-1985
Scene on the Meramec, near Glencoe, by Joseph R. Meeker, 1877
"Solitude" by Oscar Berninghaus, 1920
“Live Man, Live Strong, Another June is Come,” Landscape near Elsah, Illinois, by Frederick Oakes Sylvester, ca. 1901.
Bust of Christopher Columbus, by J. Gott, ca. 1855
"Westward the Star of Empire" by Theodore Kauffman, ca. 1869
