(b Brussels, 1688; d Brussels, 1738 or 1740). Flemish sculptor. He is credited with making statues for the high altar of the cathedral of SS Michel et Gudule in Brussels (untraced) and also with making the sculptures of animals that decorate the staircase of the cathedral’s pulpit, itself the work (1708) of Henricus-Franciscus Verbrugghen. Van der Haeghen’s St Joseph and the Infant Jesus and St James the Greater (1723–4) are preserved at the church of Notre-Dame de Bon Secours, Brussels. He also worked (1728–30) at the Onze Lieve Vrouwekerk of the Premonstratensian abbey of Ninove, where he made the high altar and two side altars, three statues of saints, the eight high-relief sculptures for the communion bench and the decoration for the organ case. In 1734 he made, for the Parc de Bruxelles in Brussels, the only two secular statues that are known in his work: Thetis (destr. 1830) and Leda (in situ).