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Rosemary Peto
Born 1916
London, England
Died 1998 (aged 81–82)
Salisbury, England
Nationality British
Alma mater
  • Westminster School of Art
  • Royal College of Art
Known for Painting
Spouse(s) Victor Montagu

Maud Rosemary Peto (1916–1998) was a British painter and artist. She was titled Viscountess Hinchingbroke from 1934 to 1958.

Biography

Peto was born in London to Major Sir Ralph Harding Peto and Frances Ruby Vera Lindsay, a family of artists, and studied drawing at the Westminster School of Art during 1931 and 1932 and then, after a career break, at the Royal College of Art from 1953 to 1956. A medical course led Peto to an interest in biology and plants and both plant and flowers featured heavily in her first solo exhibition at the Sally Hunt & Patrick Seale Fine Art gallery in 1985. After her marriage to Victor Montagu, Peto was known as Viscountess Hinchingbroke. After her death, at Salisbury in Wiltshire, a retrospective exhibition of her paintings was held at the Mall Galleries in London during 1999.

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