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 (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). 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.

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).

Evangeline (unveiled 1920), Grand Pre, Nova Scotia

Joseph Howe (1904), Province House, Halifax, Nova Scotia