PAUL

See also:

• WAYLAND, FRANCIS (1796–1865)

WAYLAND

See also:

• BARTLETT, JOHN (1820-1905)
• BARTLETT, JOHN RUSSELL (18o5-1886)
• PAUL WAYLAND BARTLETT (18654 )

BARTLETT (18654 )  , American sculptor, was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Truman H . Bartlett, an art critic and sculptor . When fifteen he began to study at Paris under Fremiet, modelling from animals in the Jardin des Plantes . He won a medal at the Paris Salon of 1887 . Among his principal works are: " The Bear Tamer," in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the, equestrian statue of Lafayette, in the Place du Carrousel, Paris, presented to the French Republic by the school children of America; the powerful and virile Columbus and Michelangelo, in the Congressional Library, Washington, D.C.; the " Ghost Dancer," in the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia; the " Dying Lion "; the equestrian statue of McClellan in Philadelphia; and a statue of Joseph Warren in Boston, Massachusetts . His bronze patinas of reptiles, insects and fish are also remarkable .