Cranbrook

During his time at Cranbrook School, then in his early teens, he first met Islam - a former first-class cricketer and a batting consultant in the school's cricket set-up.

Mat Winter, from Cranbrook, Kent, said he discovered the artwork when he was 11 and was unaware of its value until he took it to a specialist as an adult.

Since they met as M.F.A. students at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan, Outlaw, 44, and Catron, 39, who is nine months pregnant with their second child, have prioritized fun.

Samara Furlong, 35, serves on the art museum committee of the Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit and has been surrounded by art since she was young, having been born into a collecting family.

After attending the Cranbrook Schools in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Mr. Butzel graduated from Harvard with a bachelor’s degree in English in 1960 and from Harvard Law School in 1961.