About: Gerard Johnson the elder
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Gerard Johnson the elder (died 1611) is the Anglicised form of Gheerart Janssen, an English sculptor who operated a monument workshop in Elizabethan and Jacobean England and the father of Gerard Johnson the younger, who is thought to have created Shakespeare's funerary monument. He and Cornelius Cure became the leaders of the so-called Southwark school of monument design, which dominated the English market in the late-sixteenth century.
