William Shakespeare

1 portrait

William Shakespeare

after Gerard Johnson
plaster cast, (circa 1620)
31 3/4 in. (806 mm) high
Purchased, 1914
Primary Collection
NPG 1735

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William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Dramatist and poet. Sitter associated with 92 portraits.

Gerard Johnson (active 1616-1623), Sculptor. Artist associated with 12 portraits.

NPG 185a: William Shakespeare (based on same portrait)
NPG D18888: William Shakespeare (based on same portrait)
NPG D21013: Monument to William Shakespeare in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon (based on same portrait)
NPG D41657: William Shakespeare (based on same portrait)
NPG D41658: William Shakespeare (based on same portrait)
NPG D41659: William Shakespeare (based on same portrait)

Cooper, Tarnya, Searching for Shakespeare (hardback), 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 March - 29 May 2006), p. 51
Cooper, Tarnya, Searching for Shakespeare, 2006 (accompanying the exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 2 March - 29 May 2006), p. 51
Nicholl, Charles, Character Sketches: Elizabethan Writers, 1997, p. 15
Nicholl, Charles, Insights: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, 2005, p. 37
Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 558
Strong, Roy, Tudor and Jacobean Portraits, 1969, p. 283