Paul Wayland Bartlett (January 24, 1865 – 1925) was an American sculptor. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the son of Truman Howe Bartlett, an art critic and sculptor.
When fifteen he began to study in Paris under Emmanuel Frémiet, modelling from animals in the Jardin des Plantes. He won a medal at the Paris Salon of 1887.
Bartlett's masterwork was the House of Representatives pediment at the U.S. Capitol building, begun in 1908 and completed in 1916. Among his other principal works are Bohemian Bear Tamer, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the equestrian statue of Lafayette, in the Cours Albert 1er, Paris, presented to the French Republic by the schoolchildren of America; the powerful and virile bronzes Columbus and Michelangelo inside the Library of Congress; 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.
References
"Bartlett, Paul Wayland". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
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