Gerard Johnson (sculptor)

1612–1623) was a sculptor working in Jacobean England who is traditionally supposed to have created Shakespeare's funerary monument (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 Hatfield House, Hertfordshire.

[2] Shaespeare's monument is in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon, and may have been commissioned by his son-in-law John Hall.

The attribution to Gerard Johnson is contained in Sir William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire, 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.