In December 2018, Wan-go H. C. Weng made the largest and most significant gift of Chinese paintings and calligraphy in the MFA’s history: the Wan-go H. C. Weng Collection, comprising over 200 objects acquired by and passed down through six generations of a single family. An accomplished filmmaker, poet, historian, and artist, Wan-go H. C. Weng (1918–2020) was one of the most respected collectors and connoisseurs of Chinese painting in the world, and the great-great-grandson of the preeminent scholar Weng Tonghe (1830–1904), who assembled the core of the collection during the 19th century. The Weng Collection is considered among the greatest private collections of Chinese art in the US, distinguished for its superb quality, abundance of works by the great masters of the Ming and Qing dynasties, fine condition, and well-documented provenance.