Museum of Fine Arts v. Beland

This is an action brought under G. L. c. 231A by the Museum of Fine Arts (MEA), seeking a declaration that the will of the late Reverend William E. Wolcott (Wolcott) does not *541allow the defendants to sell any of the seventeen paintings that were bequeathed to a charitable trust. The record establishes the following relevant undisputed facts. Wolcott died in 1911. In his will, executed on June 20, 1907, Wolcott bequeathed seventeen paintings, including paintings by Eugene Boudin, Camille Pis-sarro, and Claude Monet, to the trustees of The White Fund (trustees), a charitable trust.4 The…