Dorothy Mead (1928–1975) was a British painter.Mead was born in London, England, but adopted at three months old by a family in Walthamstow. Her mother had a florists shopShe first met David Bomberg (1890–1957) when he was teaching at the South east Essex School of Art at Dagenham School of Art in 1944. She followed him when he moved to the City Literary Institute in London and then to the Borough Polytechnic where she studied under Bomberg from 1945 to 1951.