Louis-Philippe Hébert

Canadian writer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroCanadian writer
PlacesCanada
isWriter
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth20 December 1946, Montreal
Age78 years
The details

Biography

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.

Works

Parliament Hill, Ottawa

Nova Scotia

Quebec Parliament Building

Montreal, Quebec

Maisonneuve Monument

Other

  • 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.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.