Doris Emerson Chapman

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, having an affair with Adrian Stephen. She then joined the Morven Institute of Archeological Research to draw the megaliths of Avebury and produced measured drawings of the megaliths as they were excavated. She also pioneered in artistic facial reconstruction from skulls.[1]

She married the director, Alexander Keiller, in 1938 but 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.[1]

What little has been written about her in her lifetime has mostly been about her looks and love affairs.[2]