from Boston Globe

In the mid-1960s, Henry Forbes turned his family’s Milton Greek Revival mansion into what is now the Forbes House Museum and devoted his career to showcasing Asian export art. He later merged his collection with the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The museum “merged his tremendous aesthetic sense and his historical scholarship, and that’s really what created it, what enabled him to really preside over the founding of the discipline of Asian export art,” said his son Robert. (Read the full story here; subscription required)