Portrait of Philippe Haneton with his seven sons and the apostle Philip

Bernard van Orley's Portrait of Philippe Haneton with his Seven Sons and the Apostle Philip at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, painted around 1521, is one wing of a multi-panel family portrait commission in which Haneton — a senior secretary in the Habsburg administration of the Netherlands — is depicted with his male heirs, presented to the viewer under the protection of his patron saint Philip. Haneton was an important figure in the Habsburg bureaucracy, serving Margaret of Austria in the complex administration of the Flemish territories, and his commission of an elaborate family portrait from Brussels' court painter reflects his ambition to document his family's standing in the hierarchy of Habsburg service. The inclusion of seven sons made this one of the most impressive dynastic portraits of the period, the patriarch surrounded by his male lineage in an assertion of family continuity and religious devotion. Van Orley's court portrait style combined Flemish precision with the Italianate grandeur he had absorbed from Raphael, giving even administrative officials the formal authority of court portraiture. The Royal Museums of Fine Arts in Brussels hold this as a major document of the period.

The portrait follows established conventions of the period, with attention to physiognomic features and costume details that convey social identity and status.