Lady Loch

Also known as Ann Orr
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Wife of the Governor of Victoria, she produced a small drawing which was included in the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia.
Talk | Version history | Updated Oct. 19, 2011 | Created Jan. 1, 1999
Name
Lady Loch
Also known as Ann Orr
Gender
Female
Roles
  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Residence
  • c.1884- c.1889 Vice-regal summer residence, Mount Macedon, Vic
  • 1884- 1889 Government House, Melbourne, Vic
Languages
  • English
Is Indigenous
No
Initial Record Data Source
  • Legacy data. Source 'unknown'

Sketcher, was the wife of the Governor of Victoria, Sir Henry B. Loch. Her drawing of the view from the vice-regal summer residence in Mount Macedon was published as a small cameo in the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia . It was, says Tony Hughes-D’Aeth, 'rather at odds with the other illustrations’, but her husband was an early supporter of the enterprise – seeing it as 'promoting the fast-growing movement of federation’. He was given a large portrait in the book and both Lord and Lady Loch were fulsomely praised by the writer and art critic James Smith.

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Writers:
Staff Writer
Date written:
1999
Last updated:
2011
associate of
Cook James Smith
1813
Artist (Painter)
spouse of
Sir Henry B. Loch
Non-Artist/Designer/Curator
associate of
Florence Fuller
1867
Artist (Painter)
associate of
Johan Friedrich Carl Kruger
1831
Artist (Photographer)
View from the vice-regal summer residence in Mount Macedon
Citations:
  • Shaw, A. G. L., (1974), 'Loch, Henry Brougham [Baron Loch] (1827 - 1900)', (Place: Melbourne, Vic : Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Melbourne University Press, pp 98-99)
  • Hughes-D'Aeth, Tony, (2001), Paper Nation - The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886-1888, (Place: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic, page 37)