Alexander Ignatius Roche (17 August 1861 – 10 March 1921)[1] RSA NEAC RP was a Scottish artist in the late 19th century and an important figure in the "Glasgow Boys".

[2] In the early 1880s he joined a colony of Scots artists in Grez-sur-Loing south of Fontainebleau.

On his return to Scotland in 1885 he joined with the Glasgow Boys working on murals for the 1888 International Exhibition.

[3] In following years he visited both Venice and Florence, and married an Italian girl on the latter trip.

Around 1910 a cerebral haemorrhage caused the loss of use of its right hand and he had to retrain to paint with the left.