Tovell, Rosita LeSueur (1919 - 2014)

Daughter of Richard LeSueur (Canadian) and Rosa Larranaga y Montero (Peruvian born). Attended University of Toronto where she met her husband, Freeman Massey Tovell. Rosita's father was a collector of Peruvian pre-Columbian ceramics. Rosita and her husband moved to Peru in the early 1960s, where Freeman served as ambassador to Peru and Bolivia. During this time Rosita began to study and collect pre-Columbian Peruvian ceramics and textiles.