Alice Chapman (1860–1929) was an Australian artist known for her portraits and genre paintings (scenes depicting ordinary people in everyday situations).

Her family left the gold fields and moved to the suburb of Armadale in Melbourne during her childhood.

For this assertiveness, Chapman was punished by dismissal (although she was re-instated by the trustees after an outcry in the press and the art community).

[3] During her years of training, her fellow students included some of the artists who were central to the future development of Australian impressionism, known as the Heidelberg school, many of whom she knew through her membership of the Buonarotti Club.

[4] Tom Roberts was one such who, in 1887, painted her younger sister, Ethel Chapman, (aged 12), Blue eyes and Brown.

She chiefly specialised in portraiture and genre painting, and regularly showed her work in public exhibitions, with success.

She painted a portrait of noted concert singer Philip Newbury, which was shown at the home of him and his wife as part of an event for the Austral Salon.