BARTLETT, PAUL WAYLAND (186 2 5) , American sculptor, was born in New Haven (Conn.), the son of Truman H. Bartlett, an art critic and sculptor. When 15, 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 early works are : "The Bear Tamer," in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the equestrian statue of Lafayette, in the Place du Carrousel, Paris, the powerful and virile Columbus and Michel angelo, in the congressional library, Wash ington, 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.
Of his later works the most notable are the group in the pediment over the House I HE BEAR TAMER, ONE wing of the Capitol, Washington, D.C.; OF BARTLETT'S BEST the six statues in front of the New York KNOWN EARLY STUDIES public library; a statue of Benjamin Franklin at Waterbury (Conn.) ; and "Patriotism" in red granite at Duluth, Minnesota. He was made a commander of the Legion of Honour shortly before his death in Paris on Sept. 20, 1925.