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81: 107:) 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. 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 99:
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. Her
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in 1926 in a Jewish banking family. Forced to emigrate following the advent of the Nazis, her family settled in Northampton. Her father Philipp Ullmann's company Mettoy became famous for its metal toys, including the
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She had family wealth as well as income from the Keyser-Ullmann bank and this enabled Ulmann to collect art from the age of 11, especially ivory, ceramics, metalwork and jewellery.
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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
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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
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Charlotte Gere; Judy Rudoe (2000). "Knowledge, Money and Time: Anne Hull Grundy as a Collector of Victorian Jewellery".
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brooch from 1860 and English fuchsia gold and ivory drop earrings from 1835.
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A 1976 catalogue of an exhibition of decorative arts at the British Museum (
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made from human hair in a case, from the Hull Grundy collection, now in
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focus of collecting became European jewellery and Japanese ivory.
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Shirley Bury. "The Jeweller's Art: The Hull Grundy Gift".
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Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
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Grundy's husband died in 1984. She died the same year.
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and European decorative arts received by that museum.
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German-born British art collector and philanthropist
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The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum
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Index

Hull Grundy Collection

British Museum
netsuke
Nuremberg
Germany
Corgi line

memorial jewellery
Harrogate
Lambert Suavius
Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis
Elizabeth I
Simon de Passe
Pistrucci
jizai okimono
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Aladdin's lamp
The Times
Anne Hull Grundy née Ullmann
Ancestry.com


JSTOR
879524




British Museum

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