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{{short description|German-born British art collector and philanthropist}}
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[[File:Anne Hull Grundy.jpg|thumb|right|Anne Hull Grundy]]
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==Early life==
==Collections==
[[File:Memorial jewellery made from human hair in a case.jpg|thumb|19th-century [[memorial jewellery]] made from human hair in a case, from the Hull Grundy collection, now in [[Harrogate]] Museum.]]
She married John Hull Grundy (1926-1984), an entomologist and artist, in 1949. Shortly thereafter, she was debilitated by a chronic respiratory illness. Her purchases of fine art continued, with trusted dealers bringing the works to her sickbed. In many cases, she bought works via mail.<ref name=bm/> Her focus of collecting became European jewellery and Japanese ivory.<ref name=fitz>{{cite web|accessdate=10 December 2016|publisher=[[Fitzwilliam Museum]]|url=http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/hiddenhistories/biographies/bio/love/hullgrundy_biography.html|title=Anne Hull Grundy (1926-1984)}}</ref>
A 1976 catalogue of an exhibition of decorative arts at the British Museum (''Jewellery through 7000 years'') made Grundy realise that the museum's collection ended in the 1700s. She resolved to update their holdings by acquiring 18th and 19th century objects.<ref name="Smith2007">{{cite book|author=Rupert Smith|title=The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8pSQ42BTQYQC&pg=PA114|year=2007|publisher=BBC Books|isbn=978-0-563-53913-1|page=114}}</ref> In 1978
▲A 1976 catalogue of an exhibition of decorative arts at the British Museum (''Jewellery through 7000 years'') made Grundy realise that the museum's collection ended in the 1700s. She resolved to update their holdings by acquiring 18th and 19th century objects.<ref name="Smith2007">{{cite book|author=Rupert Smith|title=The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8pSQ42BTQYQC&pg=PA114|year=2007|publisher=BBC Books|isbn=978-0-563-53913-1|page=114}}</ref> In 1978, she donated a large part of her collection to the British Museum. This possibly comprised the best of her collections as she had separately donated fine pieces to other museums in the UK, including the Fitzwilliam in Cambridge, Manchester and Glasgow. Some of the major pieces included a 1559 silver roundel by [[Lambert Suavius]] commemorating the [[Peace of Cateau-Cambresis]], and silver portrait medallions of [[Elizabeth I]] and James I by [[Simon de Passe]]. There were also cameos by Italian masters, [[Benedetto Pistrucci|Pistrucci]], Berini and Girometti.<ref name=burlington>{{cite journal|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=121|number=912|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/879524|title=The Jeweller's Art: The Hull Grundy Gift|author=Shirley Bury|page=194|accessdate=10 December 2016}}</ref> From her Japanese collections were ''[[Okimono |jizai okimono]]'', articulated iron animals, as well as netsuke.<ref name=bm/>
Another recipient of Grundy's gift was the [[Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum]] in Glasgow, which obtained nearly a thousand pieces of jewellery tracing the history of European jewellery over a period of two centuries. This included an Italian miniature [[Aladdin's lamp]] brooch from 1860 and English fuchsia gold and ivory drop earrings from 1835.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Herald|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12731085.Gems_in_Scotland_apos_s_cultural_heritage/|title=Gems in Scotland's cultural heritage|date=3 July 1993|accessdate=10 December 2016|author=Deedee Cuddihy}}</ref>
==Later life==
Grundy wrote articles on the decorative arts both for the specialist and the popular press. Between 1958 and 1961 she contributed a 'collectors' column for ''[[The Times]]''.<ref name=das>{{cite journal|title=Knowledge, Money and Time: Anne Hull Grundy as a Collector of Victorian Jewellery|journal=The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society|number=24|pages=80–97|author1=Charlotte Gere|author2=Judy Rudoe|year=2000|jstor=41809299}}</ref>
Grundy's husband died in 1984. She died the same year.<ref name=fitz/>
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