George William Hill

Subjects and genres recorded for the work are public. Works named in the authority record are Sherbrooke War Memorial. Work by George William Hill is recorded in the collections of National Gallery of Canada and Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Distinctions recorded are Member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

• Name — George William Hill • Born — 8 May 1861 • Birthplace — Shipton, Eastern Townships, Canada East • Died — 17 July 1934 • Place of death — Outremont (Montreal) • Spouse — Elsie Annette Kent • Field — sculptor

Hill was born in Shipton, Eastern Townships, Canada East, the son of marble cutter George Taylor Hill and his wife Eleanor A. Carty. He began to carve marble in his father's workshop and worked there for eight years and he became a chief sculptor[4] then went to Paris in 1889 to study at the École nationale des beaux-arts with Alexandre Falguière,Jean Paul Laurens,[5] Henri Chapu at the Académie Julian and Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Académie Colarossi. He returned to Canada about 1894 and worked with the architects William Sutherland and Edward Maxwell. By 1897, was producing monuments. In 1902 he had won his first commission, the Strathcona and South African soldiers' memorial. Many commissions followed such as Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1912), marking the centenary of Cartier's birth.

• Société des Artistes Français, Paris (1905); • Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1896, 1907, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1931, 1932);[6] • Art Association of Montreal;

• Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s George Brown (1913) erected at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario Canada • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s D'Arcy McGee (1913) erected at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s Sherbrooke War Memorial (1926) commemorating the First World War at King Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec Canada • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s Sherbrooke War Memorial(1926) commemorating the First World War at King Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s Boer War Memorial (Montreal) (1907) in Square Dorchester, • Illustration — George William Hill (sculptor)'s Lion of Belfort (Montreal) in Square Dorchester, Montreal, Quebec • Illustration — Monument to Sir George-Étienne Cartier in front of Mount Royal during winter in Montreal (1919) • Illustration — Boer War Monument, George William Hill, Victoria Park, London, Ontario

• National Gallery of Canada;[7] • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; • Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec;[8] • Art Gallery of Hamilton;[9] • Agnes Etherington Art Centre;[10] • Ville de Montréal;[11] • Ville de Sherbrooke;[12] • City of London, Ontario; • City of Charlottetown;