Artist, born in Dunedin, New Zealand, whose Scottish father Peter McIntyre was a founder of the Caxton Printing Company, pioneering lithographic techniques in the country, working as a graphic artist for Otago Daily Times and showing with the Otago Art Society. His son Peter abandoned degree studies and travelled to England where from 1931–4 he was a prize-winning student at the Slade School of Fine Art. He married the English portrait painter and model Lilian Welbourn in 1937. McIntyre held a commission during World War II, became well known for depicting the activities of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and saw action in Crete, North Africa and Italy. The National Archives, Wellington, hold examples. McIntyre returned to New Zealand in 1946 by which time he realised that his affinities lay not with the avant-garde, as earlier thought, but with Romantic Realism.