Edward Sheffield Bartholomew

Edward Sheffield Bartholomew (c. 1822 - May 2, 1858) was an American sculptor active in the Papal State and later in Italy.

In 1844 he studied at the National Academy of Design's antique class in New York City, from 1845-1848 directed the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, contracting a severe case of smallpox circa 1847, then studied for another year in the National Academy of Design and sailed for Europe.

Bartholomew is known for his bas reliefs, marble busts and statues, and medallions in the neo-classical style.

His earliest recorded work is a medallion of poet Lydia Sigourney (1847).

Among his best-known works are Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry (1851, now in the Metropolitan Museum), Eve, Campagna Shepherd Boy (Peabody Institute), Genius of Painting, Youth and Old Age, Evening Star, Eve Repentant (Wadsworth Atheneum), Washington and Flora, A Monument to Charles Carroll (near Baltimore), Bellsarius at the Porta Pincinia, and Ganymede.