Paul W Bartlett

Paul Wayland Bartlett was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1865 but spent the greater part of his life in Paris. He moved to Paris at the age of nine with his father, the sculptor and art critic Truman A. Bartlett. He studied sculpture under Emmanuel Fremiet at the Jardin De Plantes and the Ecolé des Beaux-arts. He also worked for a time with the renowned sculptor, François-Auguste-René Rodin. After demonstrating an extraordinary level of natural talent as a sculptor, he was accepted to exhibit a portrait bust of his grandmother at the Paris Salon at the age of fifteen. He was then invited, at the mere age of twenty-four to become a member of the Salon Jury. Some of his most celebrated works include: the equestrian statue of Lafayette in Paris, the statue of Michelangelo in the Library of Congress and the façade of the New York Public Library in New York City. In 1895, Paul Bartlett was named a Chevalier of the Legion d'Honneur by the French Republic and an associate of the Academe des Beaux-Arts. In America, he was a member of the National Sculpture Society, the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Letters He died in Paris in 1925.