The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bartlett, Paul Wayland

​BARTLETT, Paul Wayland, sculptor and bronze founder, was born in New Haven, Conn., January, 1865; son of Truman Howe and Mary Ann (White) Bartlett; and grandson of Buckley Howe and Henrietta (Richardson) Bartlett, and of ——— and Arabella (Porter) White. He was educated in France and began sculpture in his father's studio at Port Marly, France, in 1877. He exhibited in the Paris salon a bust of his grandmother in 1879 and received instruction in art from Emmanuel Frémiet and Professor Cavelier, being the first American to go through a complete course of art instruction. He was a member of the International jury in the Paris universal exposition, received a gold medal in 1889 and was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor in 1895. He made a special study of fine bronze castings by wax process, specimens of which are owned by the French government. His principal works include: "Bohemian Bear Tamer," life-size bronze in Metropolitan museum of art, New York city; "Dancing Indian," larger than life, plaster, equestrian statue of Gen. George B. McClellan for the city of Philadelphia; statue of General Warren, at Roxbury, Mass.; and an equestrian statue of General Lafayette, erected in Paris by the American people, 1900.

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