George William Hill

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

Career 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 then went to Paris in 1889 to study at the École nationale des beaux-arts with Alexandre Falguière,Jean Paul Laurens, Henri Chapu at the Académie Julian and Jean-Antoine Injalbert at the Académie Colarossi. Art Association of Montreal; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Art Gallery of Hamilton; Agnes Etherington Art Centre; Ville de Montréal; Ville de Sherbrooke; City of London, Ontario; City of Charlottetown;

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