Louis-Philippe Hébert

Louis-Philippe Hébert CMG RCA (French pronunciation: [lwi filip ebɛʁ]; 27 January 1850 – 13 June 1917) was a Canadian sculptor.

At age 19, he enrolled as a Papal Zouave and left for Italy where he found the art an eye-opener.

[1] Hébert sculpted forty monuments, busts, medals and statues in wood, bronze and terra-cotta and taught at the Conseil des arts et manufactures in Montreal, Quebec.

[2] At the Exposition universelle de Paris in 1889, Hébert received a bronze medal, the first for a Canadian artist.

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.