Francesco Nagar (May 5, 1861 - ?) was an Italian painter and ceramist, who gravitated towards painting maiolica ceramics. Nagar was born in Naples. He studied in the Royal Museo Artistico Industriale of Naples, with his teachers, Domenico Morelli, , and Filippo Palizzi. He exhibited work at the Mostre della Promotrice Salvator Rosa of Naples from 1877 to 1897. His first submissions were canvas paintings, mainly of interior or exterior vedute of Naples. For example, a View of the choir of the church of San Severino exhibited in 1879 in Naples, and in 1880 at Turin. In 1877, he exhibited in Naples: Ritorno da Piedigrotta, Il pasto ai polli and a Landscape. In 1883 at Naples, he exhibited Passa tempo viziozo, Il pasto frugale, and il pescatore; and in 1884, Sacro e profano.