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| Jan van Hemessen Mary Magdalene (Christ in the background) ca. 1550 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Jan van Hemessen Nature as Nursemaid of Art ca. 1540-57 oil on panel Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Jan van Hemessen Woman holding a Balance ca. 1530 oil on panel Gemäldegalerie, Berlin |
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| Jan van Hemessen Virgin and Child beneath a Vine ca. 1528 oil on panel private collection |
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| Jan van Hemessen St Jerome 1543 oil on panel Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jan van Hemessen Christ as Triumphant Redeemer ca. 1545 oil on panel (altarpiece fragment) private collection |
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| Jan van Hemessen assisted by his daughter Catharina Altarpiece with Stories from the Old and New Testaments ca. 1550-60 oil on panels Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Jan van Hemessen assisted by his daughter Catharina Altarpiece with Stories from the Old and New Testaments (Baptism and Ascension of Christ) ca. 1550-60 oil on panels Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Jan van Hemessen assisted by his daughter Catharina Altarpiece with Stories from the Old and New Testaments (Sacrifice of Isaac) ca. 1550-60 oil on panels Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Jan van Hemessen assisted by his daughter Catharina Altarpiece with Stories from the Old and New Testaments (Adam and Eve) ca. 1550-60 oil on panels Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio |
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| Jan van Hemessen Last Judgement Altarpiece (detail) ca. 1536-37 oil on panel Sint Jacobskerk, Antwerp |
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| Jan van Hemessen Last Judgement Altarpiece (detail) ca. 1536-37 oil on panel Sint Jacobskerk, Antwerp |
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| Jan van Hemessen Allegory of Vanity ca. 1535-40 oil on panel Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Jan van Hemessen Allegory of Vanity (detail with skull in mirror) ca. 1535-40 oil on panel Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
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| Jan van Hemessen Judith with the Head of Holofernes ca. 1540 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
"Jan van Hemessen is considered the greatest and most imaginative artistic force in the northern city of Antwerp between the death of Quinten Massys in 1530 and the coming of age of Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Certainly his profound influence on Flemish painting as a whole through the 1530s and 1540s is undeniable. . . . Hemessen had been elected to the Guild of St Luke in Antwerp in 1524, having completed his pupilage under Hendrik van Cleve I, and, as with Jan Gossaert before him, his journey to Italy brought him into contact with the classicizing style and idiom of the great painters of the Italian High Renaissance. While Michelangelo and Raphael remain the obvious influences on his religious work, his later portraiture owes more to the great master of the 1530s and '40s, Agnolo Bronzino."
– from biographical notes published by Sotheby's, London