Andres Molinary[b] (1847–1915) was an artist, art teacher, restorer and photographer who painted for most of his career in New Orleans, Louisiana.

He won a scholarship to attend the Accademia di San Luca in Rome, and he later studied at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Seville, Spain.

After spending a year traveling and painting in Mexico and Central America, he returned to New Orleans by 1876.

[7] In New Orleans, Molinary established himself as a popular portrait painter, though he also was noted for his landscapes and genre scene paintings.

[12] In 1887, Molinary, alongside editor Mary Ashley Townsend and fellow artists Bror Anders Wikström and Ellsworth Woodward, launched Art and Letters, a short-lived bimonthly literary journal.