Gerard Johnson (sculptor)
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Gerard Johnson (sculptor)
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Gerard Johnson Jr. was a sculptor working in Jacobean England who is traditionally supposed to have created Shakespeare's funerary monument. In May 1612 Johnson was paid for making part of a fountain for the east garden at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. His father, then known as Gheerart Janssen, came to England in 1567 from Holland. He established himself as a sculptor of funerary monuments in London. Gerard the elder worked on a monument to the 1st Earl of Southampton, which also depicts Shake
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17th-century English sculptor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Johnson_(sculptor)
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2023-05-07T21:23:16Z
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