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PAUL WAYLAND BARTLETT (18654 )
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BARTLETT, PAUL WAYLAND (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.