Louis-Philippe Hébert

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Louis-Philippe Hébert
Louis-Philippe Hébert
Born	27 Jan 1850 Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Quebec
Died	13 June 1917 Westmount Montreal, Quebec
Nationality	Canadian
Field	sculptor, educator
Training	Napoléon Bourassa

Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850–1917) was the son of Théophile Hébert, a farmer, and Julie Bourgeois of Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Quebec. Louis-Philippe Hébert was a sculptor who sculpted forty monuments, busts, medals and statues in wood, bronze and terra-cotta. He taught at the Conseil des arts et manufactures in Montreal, Quebec. He married Maria Roy on 26 May 1879 in Montreal, Quebec. The couple's eight children include Henri Hébert a sculptor, and Adrien Hébert, a painter.

Louis-Philippe Hébert was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1880).^[1] He was awarded the Medal of Confederation (1894). He was made a chevalier of France's Legion of Honour (1901). He was a Companion of St Michael and St George (Great Britain, 1903). The Prix Philippe-Hébert, named in his honour, has been given to an artist of outstanding ability and stature in Québec arts by the St-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montréal since 1971. He was buried in Notre-Dame-des-Neiges cemetery, Montreal, Quebec.

Works

Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1880s) at Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario
Sir John A. Macdonald (1880s)
Queen Victoria (1900), dedicated by Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York in 1901.
Alexander Mackenzie (1901).

Nova Scotia

Evangeline (unveiled 1920), Grand Pre, Nova Scotia
Joseph Howe (1904), Province House, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Libel trial of Joseph Howe, Supreme Court (current Legislative Library), Province House (Nova Scotia)

Quebec Parliament Building

« La Halte dans la forêt » Amerindian family sculpture facade of the Quebec Parliament Building, Québec City.
« La Halte dans la forêt » Amerindian family
Charles-Michel de Salaberry
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
James Wolfe and Marquis de Montcalm
Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis sculpture

Montreal, Quebec

Edward VII Monument (Montreal) (1914) in Phillips Square, Montreal, Quebec
Edward VII Monument (Montreal) (1914) in Phillips Square
Jeanne Mance Monument at l'hôtel-Dieu de l'avenue des Pins
Jeanne Mance Monument at l'hôtel-Dieu de l'avenue des Pins
Bishop of Montreal, Ignace Bourget Monument (1903) is in front of Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral
Louis-Philippe Hébert's John Young (1908) was erected at the Old Port of Montreal.
John Young (1908) was erected at the Old Port of Montreal

Maisonneuve Monument

Maisonneuve Monument (1895) was erected in memory of Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve in the Place d'Armes square Montreal, Quebec.
Mascaron.
Acte de fondation de Ville-Marie.
Mort heroique de Dollard au Long Sault.
Premiere messe a Ville-Marie.
Iroquois.
Charles Le Moyne.
Lambert Closse.
Jeanne Mance.

Other

Bishop Joseph Eugene Guiges outside Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa
Octave Crémazie Monument near the house of Émile Nelligan
Madeleine de Verchères (1927) was erected in Verchères, Quebec

Monseigneur Bourget in Montreal, Quebec.
Monseigneur de Laval in Quebec, Quebec.
completed thirty large wooden sculptures in the choir of the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa including the Holy Family, John the Baptist and Patrick, the patron saints of English and French Catholics.
monument at Parliament Hill (Quebec City) to soldiers Short and Wallick (1891), two heroes who saved the inhabitants of the fire at Saint-Sauveur in the lower town of Quebec in 1889)
monument of Father André Garin, priest at St.-Jean-Baptiste Church, at Lowell, Massachusetts.

References

Bruno Hébert 'Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850–1917)' 1890
<http://ecommunity.uml.edu/francolowellma/history/memorial.htm>

↑ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Retrieved 11 September 2013.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 66374879 LCCN: nr97026810 GND: 144027712 SUDOC: 127693653

External links

"Louis-Philippe Hébert". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2005. Check date values in: |date= (help)
Canadian Encyclopedia : Louis-Philippe Hébert
Louis-Philippe Hébert photos by George Lessard

Persondata
Name	Heber,t Louis-Philippe
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian artist
Date of birth	1850
Place of birth	Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Quebec
Date of death	13 June 1917
Place of death	Westmount Montreal, Quebec

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