the front later, probably by Francesco Rugeri
labelled Gasparo da Salò, in Brescia.
length of back 29¹¹/₁₆in., 75.4cm.

in case

Sold with a receipt from W.E. Hill & Sons, dated 18^th February 1950

Provenance
Vivien Mackie (1931-2023) was born in Edinburgh. She learned the cello from a young age and won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music, and after graduating she travelled to France to study with Pablo Casals. On her return to the UK she performed and taught in Cambridge and developed an interest in the Alexander Technique. She trained in the technique with Walter Carrington in the early 1970s and began to teach in Edinburgh and London.

From the mid-1970s she gave masterclasses and workshops abroad, in Europe, the US, Japan and Mexico. She also made around 30 trips to Australia, where she ran a teacher training course for musicians at the Trinity College Alexander School in Melbourne. In 2007 she moved to Glasgow, but continued to travel and teach up to the last week of her life.