Louis-Philippe Hébert (1850–1917) was a Canadian sculptor. He is considered one of the best sculptors of his generation.

Career

Hébert was the son of Théophile Hébert, a farmer, and Julie Bourgeois of Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Quebec. At age 19, he enrolled as a Papal Zouave and left for Italy where he found the art an eye-opener. The trip had a major impact on his career. Back in Canada, in 1872, he was initiated in making sculpture in wood by Adolphe Rho at Bécancour, then was mentored by Napoléon Bourassa in new approaches to sculpture in Canada. Hébert sculpted forty monuments, busts, medals and statues in wood, bronze and terra-cotta and taught at the Conseil des arts et manufactures in

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. He married Maria Roy on 26 May 1879 in

. The couple's eight children include Henri Hébert, a sculptor, and Adrien Hébert, a painter. Hébert was an associate member of the

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(1880 and 1895), a full member in 1886-1889 and 1906. At the Exposition universelle de Paris in 1889, Hébert received a bronze medal, the first for a Canadian artist. He also was awarded the Medal of Confederation (1894) and was made a chevalier of France's Legion of Honour (1901), as well as 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,

Works

Parliament Hill, Ottawa

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(1880s) at

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(1900), dedicated by Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York in 1901. File:Alexander Mackenzie statue.jpg, Alexander Mackenzie (1901).

Nova Scotia

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(unveiled 1920),

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(1904), Province House,

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, Supreme Court (current Legislative Library),

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Quebec Parliament Building

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and

Marquis de Montcalm Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Grozon, Marquis de Montcalm de Saint-Veran (28 February 1712 – 14 September 1759) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (whose North American th ...

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Montreal, Quebec

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Maisonneuve Monument

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(1895) was erected in memory of

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in the Place d'Armes square

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Other

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*Monseigneur Bourget in

. *Monseigneur de Laval in

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. *completed thirty large wooden sculptures in the choir of the Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa including the

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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

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References

External links

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Canadian Encyclopedia : Louis-Philippe Hébert

Louis-Philippe Hébert photos by George Lessard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hébert, Louis-Philippe 1850 births 1917 deaths Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur 20th-century Canadian sculptors Canadian male sculptors 20th-century male artists 19th-century Canadian sculptors 19th-century male artists Burials at Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery Members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts