Ignazio Hugford
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Ignazio Hugford, or Ignatius Heckford (1703 - Florence, 1778), was a Florentine painter Italy active in an early Neoclassic style.
Born in Pisa, called son of a resident English watchmaker to the Medici. Ignazio was first apprenticed at the age of 9 years to Anton Domenico Gabbiani. In 1745, he painted over a dozen canvases for the refectory of the Benedictine Abbey of Vallombrosa, where his brother, Enrico, became abbot. Hugford joined the Accademia del Disegno of Florence, and published a biography on his mentor. Among his masterpieces is Contessa Matilde donates her riches to the Church in the church of San Bartolommeo in Pantano in Pistoia[1]. In the same pistoiese church are canvases of St. Peter crosses the fire, Sant'Atto receives the relics of Sant'Jacopo. In the Pieve di S. Andrea a Doccia, there is an altarpiece of Saints Carlo Borromeo, Filippo Neri, and Antonio Abate before a Crucifix (1776).
He is nowadays, for better or worse, more noteworthy as a critic, art scholar, and for his efforts as an agent for collectors. Among his pupils were Francesco Bartolozzo, Lamberto Gori, Giovanni Battista Ciprione, and Sante Pacini.
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- Giovanna Perini, Dresden And the Italian art market in the eighteenth century: Ignazio Hugford and Giovanni Ludovic Harrier eagles , Documents for the history of collecting , 16, The Burlington Magazine , 1993, vol. 135, not. 1085, pp. 550-559.
- Bruce Cole; Ulrich Middeldorf. Masaccio, Lippi, or Hugford?,
The Burlington Magazine (1971) pp. 500-505, 507.
