amateur watercolour painter and manufacturers’ agent. George C. T. Orr was born in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo in 1882, the son of Thomas W. Orr, a Surry Hills bootmaker, and his wife Maria (née Turner). G. T. C. Orr married Annie V. Plunkett in Petersham in 1906 and died in the Chatswood district in 1933.
A number of paintings by Orr, done in the greater Sydney region during the 1920s, are in private collections in Australia and Europe.
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Riddler, Eric
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2005
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2011
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