Ignazio Hugford

Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford (1703–1778), was an Italian painter active mostly in Tuscany in an early Neoclassic style.

Ignazio Hugford was born in Pisa, the son of a resident English watchmaker who worked for the House of Medici.

In 1745, he painted over a dozen canvases for the refectory of the Benedictine Abbey of Vallombrosa, where his brother, Ferdinando Enrico, became abbot.

[2] In the same Pistoiese church are canvasses of St. Peter crosses the fire and Sant'Atto receives the relics of San Jacopo.

The Pieve di S. Andrea a Doccia houses an altarpiece of Saints Charles Borromeo, Philip Neri and Antonio Abate before a Crucifix (1776).