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| Jan van der Heyden Water Gate in Emmerich am Rhein 1664 oil on panel Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede |
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| Jan van der Heyden View of the Westerkerk, Amsterdam ca. 1668-72 oil on panel Wallace Collection, London |
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| Jan van der Heyden Town Square ca. 1660-65 oil on panel private collection |
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| Jan van der Heyden Herengracht, Amsterdam ca. 1670 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan van der Heyden Schloss Loenersloot in Holland 1668 oil on panel Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jan van der Heyden Two Churches and a Town Wall ca. 1660 oil on panel Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
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| Jan van der Heyden On a Country Road 1667 oil on panel Städel Museum, Frankfurt |
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| Jan van der Heyden Crossroads in a Wood ca. 1660-70 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| Jan van der Heyden Forest Scene ca. 1660-90 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan van der Heyden The Stone Bridge, Amsterdam ca. 1660-72 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan van der Heyden Capriccio View of Cologne ca. 1675 oil on panel private collection |
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| Jan van der Heyden Capriccio View of Arnhem 1666 oil on copper private collection |
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| Jan van der Heyden Architectural Capriccio ca. 1670 oil on panel National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
"Van der Heyden's oeuvre is composed largely of cityscapes and other depictions of groups of buildings, although he did paint about forty pure landscapes. Some of his works are relatively faithful depictions of an actual location, but many others are entirely imaginary architectural fantasies. Typically, his scenes are bathed in a brilliant, crisp light of almost unnatural clarity and characterized by remarkable attention to detail. Throughout his paintings, minute features are rendered with the greatest precision, and yet the artist seems never to have allowed this technique to interfere with the creation of a balanced and harmonious composition. The great skill with which Van der Heyden distributes areas of light and shade and his general mastery of subtle atmospheric effects are in no small way responsible for the coherence and unity of his works. . . . When he died on March 28, 1712, Van der Heyden was a wealthy man and had in his possession some seventy of his own paintings. His influence on other seventeenth-century artists was relatively limited, but he was an extremely important source for architectural painters of the following century, both in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe."
– Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., from biographical notes at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
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| Jan van der Heyden Corner of a Study 1712 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Jan van der Heyden Corner of a Study 1711 oil on canvas Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |