Mr. Forbes converted his family’s mansion into the Forbes House Museum at a time when Western interest in Asian export art was increasing.
(Joanne Rathe/Globe Staff/file 2009)
Henry Forbes, 87; set up museum in Milton for Asian export art
Mr. Forbes converted his family’s mansion into the Forbes House Museum at a time when Western interest in Asian export art was increasing.
(Joanne Rathe/Globe Staff/file 2009)
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.
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