Paul Wayland Bartlett 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 1 er , Paris, presented to the French Republic by the...more »