Alfred Lambourne

Alfred Lambourne (February 2, 1850 – June 6, 1926)[1] was an English-born American artist and author.

He is best remembered for his paintings, but he also wrote short fiction for Mormon periodicals,[2] and other works of musings and poetry.

[3] In 1871, he accompanied then-President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and former Governor of the Utah Territory, Brigham Young, to Zion Canyon and made the first sketches of the area.

In the same decade, Lambourne traveled the American West with photographer Charles Roscoe Savage, painting as Savage photographed, and explored the Wasatch range with H. L. A. Culmer, painting and naming features, and "painted a series of large canvasses representing his journey from the eastern coast of the United States to the Golden Gate" with Reuben Kirkham.

[1] In November, 1895, he began a year living in solitude on Great Salt Lake's remote Gunnison Island, where he wrote Our Inland Sea.