Lot 263: Willem Doudijns (The Hague 1630-1697) A Vestal signed 'Guilielmo Doudij'

(on the chalice, middle right) oil on canvas 73 x 60 cm. (28 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.) Willem Doudijns is recorded as a painter of historical and mythological subjects. He is known to have travelled to Italy, and this may account for his signing pictures in Italian. In 1661 he returned to the Hague and entered into the Guild, later becoming a director of the Academy. The painters Augustinus and Matheus Terwesten and the portrait painter Willem Wissing were pupils in his studio.