The Chronicler of Valor: The Life and Legacy of Orlando Norie In the grand tapestry of Victorian art, few threads are as vibrant or as densely woven as those spun by Orlando Norie. A titan of military watercolor, Norie possessed an almost superhuman capacity for documentation, leaving behind a staggering legacy estimated at over 5,000 individual works. Born in 1832 in the historic city of Bruges, Belgium, to Scottish parents who had v…