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His father, Gerard Johnson the elder, came to England in 1567 from Holland.
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In May 1612 he was paid for making part of a fountain for the east garden at Hatfield House, Hertfordshire. He established himself as a sculptor of funerary monuments in London. Johnson"s father had worked on a monument to the 1st Earl of Southampton, which also depicts Shakespeare"s patron, the 3rd Earl, as a young manitoba
Shakespeare would probably have seen the monument if he had stayed at Titchfield.
The attribution to Johnson is contained in Sir William Dugdale"s Antiquities of Warwickshire, published in 1656, but no other evidence of Johnson"s authorship exists. This would probably have been installed in 1615 while Shakespeare was still alive.
lieutenant is also possible that Shakespeare knew the Johnson family from his London days, since their workshop was close to the Globe theatre. In 1849 a death mask was discovered in Germany, and was claimed to be Shakespeare"son
lieutenant received great publicity when the anatomist Richard Owen authenticated it and suggested that it was used by Johnson as the model for the memorial.
Henry Wallis later painted this imagined scene validating the mask. The mask is no longer considered to be authentic.
