Rosemary Peto

Maud Rosemary Peto (1916–1998) was a British painter and artist. As the wife of the Conservative politician Victor Montagu, she was titled Viscountess Hinchingbroke by courtesy 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 death, at Salisbury in Wiltshire, a retrospective exhibition of her paintings was held at the Mall Galleries in London during 1999.