According to the
RKD he learned to draw from
Alexander le Petit, and he spent 12 years in Italy. He returned home in 1661, where he collaborated with
Jan de Bisschop on engravings. Both he and Bisschop were founding members of the
Confrerie Pictura and Doudijns painted a large ceiling painting for the meeting hall that has not survived. His pupil
Mattheus Terwesten made a sketch of this
Allegory of the artists leaving the Hague Guild of St. Luke which is now in the
Rijksmuseum print cabinet. According to Houbraken he was the son of a mayor, and in Rome he joined the
Bentvueghels with the nickname
Diomedes. On his return became the head of the Confrerie Pictura. He was known for his wall and ceiling paintings, most notably the
Judgment of Solomon in the
Vierschaar, or courtroom, of the
Hague city hall. His pupils were Erasmus Arondeus,
Frans Beeldemaker, Gijsbert de Bije, Bartholomeus van Burgindis, Arnoldus Gouda, Nicolaes Hooft,
Pieter van der Hulst, Daniël Jacobsz., Lowys Paen,
Nicolaes van Ravesteyn, Pieter van Reenen,
Pieter Jansz van Ruyven,
Augustinus Terwesten,
Mattheus Terwesten, Michiel van der Valck, Daniël Walewijns,
Domenicus van Wijnen, and
Willem Wissing. ==References==