Louis-Philippe Hébert

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

Louis-Philippe Hébert CMG (1850–1917) was the son of Théophile Hébert, a farmer, and Julie Bourgeois of Ste-Sophie de Mégantic, Quebec. 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.

Hébert was a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1880). 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

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

Nova Scotia

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

Quebec Parliament Building

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

Montreal, Quebec

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

Maisonneuve Monument

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

Other

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  Bishop Joseph Eugene Guiges outside Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica, Ottawa
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  Octave Crémazie Monument near the house of Émile Nelligan
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  Madeleine de Verchères (1927) was erected in Verchères, Quebec
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  Boer War monument in Central Memorial Park. Calgary, Alberta

• 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
• <https://web.archive.org/web/20100613213017/http://ecommunity.uml.edu/francolowellma/history/memorial.htm>

External links

• "Louis-Philippe Hébert". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
• Canadian Encyclopedia : Louis-Philippe Hébert
• Louis-Philippe Hébert photos by George Lessard