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Verhaegen [Verhaeghen], Theodoor
(b Mechelen, bapt 4 June 1700; d Mechelen, 21 April 1754). Flemish sculptor. He was the son of a joiner and was apprenticed to the sculptor Jan-Frans Boeckstuyns. He later worked in Antwerp with Michiel van der Voort I, Johannes Claudius von Cock and Willem Ignatius Kerricx. In 1720 he was in the Brussels workshop of Pieter-Denis Plumier. On returning to Mechelen after Plumier’s death in 1721, he assisted van der Voort with the elaborate carved wooden pulpit (1721) for the monastery of Leliëndael; this pulpit (now Mechelen Cathedral) was to prove a decisive influence on his own pulpits.
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