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Sir George Grey
James Tannock Mackelvie
Mackelvie Trust
The Partridge Collection
Friends of the Gallery
The Edmiston Trust
Lucy Carrington Wertheim
Patrons of the Gallery
Private Gifts
Dr Walter Auburn
The Ilene and Laurence Dakin Bequest
Colin McCahon and Frances Hodgkins
E. H. McCormick Bequest
The Chartwell Trust
Thanksgiving Foundation
James Tannock Mackelvie
In 1893 the gifts and bequests of James Tannock Mackelvie to the
City of Auckland were displayed in the Gallery for the first time. A
Glaswegian Scot, Mackelvie had lived in Auckland from 1865 until 1871,
taking an active part in city life. He was one of the original members
of the Council of the Auckland Institute, later the Auckland War
Memorial Museum. After returning to London he set about putting
together an art collection, sending several consignments to Auckland
from 1876 onwards. Works included a Saint Sebastian by Guido
Reni, pencil drawings by J. M. W. Turner and a bronze statue of a
draped female figure, believed to have come from the ruins of Pompeii.
A few months before he died he also produced a sixty-page record of the
works titled Catalogue of the Mackelvie Collection, for Auckland, New
Zealand, 1885.
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