Doris Emerson Chapman (1903 – 1990) was a British artist and prehistorian. She trained in Paris and then exhibited paintings in London during the 1920s and 1930s. She was associated with the Bloomsbury Group. She then joined the Morven Institute of Archaeological Research to draw the megaliths of Avebury and produced measured drawings as they were excavated. In 1939 she wrote a guidebook titled Is This Your First Visit to Avebury?.[1]
She also pioneered artistic facial reconstruction from skulls and in 1939 she published several illustrations of individuals from Lanhill long barrow in The Illustrated London News.[2]
Personal life
editChapman had a relationship with the author, psychoanalyst, and younger brother of Virginia Woolf, Adrian Stephen.[when?][3] Later, after joining the excavation team led by Alexander Keiller at Avebury and Lanhill long barrow in 1934, Chapman married Keiller. A drawing of Keiller made by Chapman in 1934 is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.[4] The couple became increasingly estranged from the beginning of the war, when the Institute closed, although they would not divorce until 1951. She became a nurse in London and then married again in 1951.[3]
References
edit- ^ Emerson Chapman, Doris (1939). Is This Your First Visit to Avebury?. HMSO.
- ^ Emerson Chapman, Doris (27 May 1939). "Neolithic Ancient Britons; Racial Types Portrayed From Skulls". The Illustrated London News. pp. 930–931. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
- ^ a b Wickstead, Helen, "Art and Archaeology: Doris Emerson Chapman, painter and archaeologist", Public Catalogue Foundation Newsletter (40)
- ^ "Alexander Keiller - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 3 July 2023.
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