diff --git a/src/EPPlus/FormulaParsing/Excel/Functions/RefAndLookup/ImageFunction.cs b/src/EPPlus/FormulaParsing/Excel/Functions/RefAndLookup/ImageFunction.cs
index 491a8b466..5d7328df6 100644
--- a/src/EPPlus/FormulaParsing/Excel/Functions/RefAndLookup/ImageFunction.cs
+++ b/src/EPPlus/FormulaParsing/Excel/Functions/RefAndLookup/ImageFunction.cs
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ public override CompileResult Execute(IList<FunctionArgument> arguments, Parsing
                 if (cellPic == null || context.Configuration.AlwaysRefreshImageFunction)
                 {
                     var httpsService = context.CurrentWorksheet._package.Settings.ImageFunctionService;
-                    if (httpsService == null)
+                    if (httpsService == null || context.Configuration.DisableImageFunctionDownloads)
                     {
                     return CreateResult(eErrorType.Name);
                     }
diff --git a/src/EPPlus/FormulaParsing/ParsingConfiguration.cs b/src/EPPlus/FormulaParsing/ParsingConfiguration.cs
index 904f3b81a..39b4ba4b4 100644
--- a/src/EPPlus/FormulaParsing/ParsingConfiguration.cs
+++ b/src/EPPlus/FormulaParsing/ParsingConfiguration.cs
@@ -46,6 +46,13 @@ public class ParsingConfiguration
         /// </summary>
         public bool AlwaysRefreshImageFunction { get; set; } = false;
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// If true the IMAGE function will never download external content in formula calculation.
+        /// It will instead return the NAME error as if the function was not implemented.
+        /// NB! This property overrides the <see cref="AlwaysRefreshImageFunction"/> property if set to true.
+        /// </summary>
+        public bool DisableImageFunctionDownloads{ get; set; } = false;
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Enables Unicode-aware string operations, ensuring correct handling of surrogate pairs for comparisons, substrings, and sorting within the library.
         /// </summary>