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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]]
'''Anne Hull Grundy''' (née Ullmann, 9 December 1926–7 August 1984)<ref>[https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/43197791/person/12630894152/story?_phsrc=djv1251&_phstart=successSource Anne Hull Grundy née Ullmann] - [[Ancestry.com]] {{subscription required}}</ref> was a German-born British art collector and philanthropist. Her 1978 bequest to the [[British Museum]] comprised some of the finest [[netsuke]] and European decorative arts received by that museum.<ref name=burlington/>
==Early life==
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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 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-
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>
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