Alfred Lambourne was born Feb. 2, 1850 in Berkshire, England and he died June 6, 1926 in Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...

. In the 1860s he and his family moved to the American West with the Mormon pioneers. He is best remembered for his paintings, but he also wrote short

Short story

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 fiction

LDS fiction

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 for Mormon periodicals.

Early life

Alfred Lambourne was born to William and Martha Lambourne in England. The family emigrated to America when Alfred was a child. They first settled in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

 before moving to Utah

Utah

Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...

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Art and exploration

After arriving in Salt Lake City, Lambourne took work as a scenic artist for the Salt Lake Theatre.

Lambourne traveled the American West with photographer Charles Roscoe Savage

Charles Roscoe Savage

Charles Roscoe Savage was a British-born landscape and portrait photographer who produced images of the American West. He is best known for his 1869 photographs of the linking of the first transcontinental railroad....

, painting as Savage photographed.

Lambourne explored the Wasatch range

Wasatch Range

The Wasatch Range is a mountain range that stretches approximately from the Utah-Idaho border, south through central Utah in the western United States. It is generally considered the western edge of the greater Rocky Mountains, and the eastern edge of the Great Basin region...

 with H. L. A. Culmer, painting and naming features. He also visited Yosemite, Colorado

Colorado

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 and Arizona

Arizona

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.

Lambourne and Teuben Kirkham "painted a series of large canvasses representing his journey from the eastern coast of the United States, to the Golden Gate

Golden Gate

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."

He also accompanied Brigham Young

Brigham Young

Brigham Young was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the Western United States. He was the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1847 until his death in 1877, he founded Salt Lake City, and he served as the first governor of the Utah...

 to Zion Canyon

Zion Canyon

Zion Canyon is a deep and narrow gorge in southwestern Utah, United States, carved by the North Fork of the Virgin River...

and allegedly made the first paintings of the area.

Later in life he focused more on writing, sometimes illustrating his work.