Willem Doudijns (1630–1697), was a Dutch Golden Age painter and engraver.
According to the RKD he bookish to appeal from Alexander le Petit, and he spent 12 years in Italy. He returned house in 1661, where he collaborated once Jan de Bisschop upon 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 rejection 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 associated the Bentvueghels taking into account the nickname Diomedes. On his recompense 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.
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