Lorenzo Palmer Latimer (1857 - 1941) Watercolor on paper, signed lower right "L.P. Latimer", measures 11 x 8 inches image size. Born in Gold Hill of Placer County, California, Lorenzo Latimer became a prolific California landscape painter and highly respected teacher. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of picturesque views of northern California including giant redwoods, Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada Mountains.He was the son of California pioneers, and his father, Lorenzo Dow Latimer, was a lawyer in Chicago and then moved his family to California where he tried gold mining. Failing to have success, he practiced law in that state, first in Gold Hill in Placer County and then in Santa Rosa of Sonoma County. Lorenzo Latimer's mother died when he was six years old, and the father married Sarah Rich from a local ranching family. The Latimers moved to a ranch near Windsor, California and the young Latimer grew up among rolling hills that later became prosperous vineyards. In 1869, when Lorenzo Latimer was age twelve, he moved to San Francisco where his father became a Superior Court Judge.

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