George William Hill (sculptor)

George William Hill RCA (1861 – 1934) was one of the Canada's foremost sculptors during the first half of the 20th century because of his numerous public memorials.^[1] He was elected in 1917 as a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.^[2][3]

The son of George Taylor Hill and Eleanor A. Carty

Hill was born in Shipton, Eastern Townships, Canada East, the son of a marble cutter. 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.^[3] He returned to Canada about 1894 and worked with the architects William Sutherland and Edward Maxwell.^[3] By 1897, was producing monuments. In 1902 he had won his first commission, the Strathcona and South African soldiers' memorial.^[3] Many commissions followed such as Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1912), marking the centenary of Cartier's birth.

• Société des Artistes Français, Paris (1905);^[3]
• Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1896, 1907, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1931, 1932);^[6]
• Art Association of Montreal;^[3]

• The Lion of Belfort, 1897;
• Boer War Memorial (1907), Montreal;
• The Monument to the Heroes of the Boer War (1912), London, Ontario;^[5]
• The Sir George-Étienne Cartier Monument (1919);^[5]
• The Canadian Nursing sisters' memorial in the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Hall of Honour, near the entrance to the Parliamentary Library (1926);^[5]
• Sherbrooke War Memorial, 1926;^[5]
• War Memorial, Harbord Collegiate School,286 Harbord St., Toronto, Ontario;^[5]
• War Memorial, Pictou, Nova Scotia;^[5]
• War Memorial, Westmount, Montreal, Quebec;^[5]
• Charlottetown Veterans Memorial at Province House, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.^[5]

• National Gallery of Canada;^[7]
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts;^[8]
• Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec;^[9]
• Art Gallery of Hamilton;^[10]
• Agnes Etherington Art Centre;^[11]
• Ville de Montréal;^[8]
• Ville de Sherbrooke;^[12]
• City of London, Ontario;^[4]
• City of Charlottetown;^[4]

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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George Brown (1913) erected at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s D'Arcy McGee (1913) erected at Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s George-Étienne Cartier Monument(1919) at Mont Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Sherbrooke War Memorial (1926) commemorating the First World War at King Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Sherbrooke War Memorial(1926) commemorating the First World War at King Street in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Boer War Memorial (Montreal) (1907) in Square Dorchester,
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  George William Hill (sculptor)'s Lion of Belfort (Montreal)inSquare Dorchester, Montreal, Quebec

• George Hill Letter at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.
• HILL, GEORGE WILLIAM. "Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003". biographi.ca. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved 25 September 2020.

• Canada. National Capital Commission. Information and Historical Division (1963). Statues and Monuments in Ottawa and Hull. Ottawa: Queen's Printer. Retrieved 5 January 2024.