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Gerard Johnson (sculptor)

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22: 414: 282: 294: 306: 106:, published in 1656, but no other evidence of his authorship exists. Dugdale also states that the Gerard the younger created the memorial in Holy Trinity church to Shakespeare's friend John Combe, who left the playwright a legacy in his will. This would probably have been installed in 1615 while Shakespeare was still alive. It is also possible that Shakespeare knew the Johnson family from his London days, since their workshop was close to the 129:
also believed in the authenticity of the mask. When he created the large public Shakespeare statue in Stratford in 1888, he based the facial features on it. He also attempted to buy it for the nation. The mask is now generally believed to be a fake, though its authenticity claim was revived in 1998.
117:, who linked it to a painting which, he claimed, depicted Shakespeare and resembled the mask. The mask, known as the "Kesselstadt death mask" was given publicity when it was declared authentic by the scientist 337: 330: 323: 133:
In 2021, Lena Cowen Orlin challenged the attribution of Shakespeare's monument to Gerard Johnson, arguing that it was more probably by Gerard's brother,
454: 52:(although this attribution has more recently been challenged). In May 1612 Johnson was paid for making part of a fountain for the east garden at 249: 449: 72: 76: 517: 459: 433: 87: 226: 486: 428: 49: 134: 473: 512: 293: 21: 281: 315: 48:; fl. 1612–1623) was a sculptor working in Jacobean England who is traditionally supposed to have created 481: 125:
painted a picture depicting the sculptor working on the monument while looking at the mask. The sculptor
64: 202:; in German with some English translations, Manuscripts in the Mitchell Library NSW, CY REEL 603, ML*D83 507: 413: 305: 355: 114: 137:, was commissioned by Shakespeare himself during his lifetime, and was sculpted from the life. 95: 250:"'Self-satisfied pork butcher': Shakespeare grave effigy believed to be definitive likeness" 8: 347: 91: 79:, as a young man. Shakespeare would probably have seen the monument if he had stayed at 384: 368: 126: 68: 399: 363: 394: 99: 67:, came to England in 1567 from Holland. He established himself as a sculptor of 389: 53: 41: 345: 154: 501: 183: 107: 57: 254: 122: 121:, who also claimed that the Stratford memorial was based on it. The artist 118: 26: 113:
In 1849 a death mask of Shakespeare was made public by a German artist,
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A Life of William Shakespeare: With Portraits and Facsimiles
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in London. Gerard the elder worked on a monument to the
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depicting Gerard Johnson carving the monument, while
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Index


Henry Wallis
Ben Jonson
Dutch
Shakespeare's funerary monument
Hatfield House
Hertfordshire
Gheerart Janssen
funerary monuments
1st Earl of Southampton
3rd Earl
Titchfield
Holy Trinity Church
Stratford upon Avon
John Hall
William Dugdale
Globe theatre
Ludwig Becker
Richard Owen
Henry Wallis
Lord Ronald Gower
Nicholas Johnson
"Johnson (Janssen) family (per. c.1570–c.1630)"
Cooper, Tarnya.
"Is this mask the real face of Shakespeare?"
"'Self-satisfied pork butcher': Shakespeare grave effigy believed to be definitive likeness"
The Guardian
The monument in situ
Close-up of the sculpture
The tomb of John Combe

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