thumb|Portrait of Johann Christian Brand by [[Adam Bartsch (1793), Metropolitan Museum of Art]]

thumb|300px|Sandpit, by Johann Christian Brand, 1744.<!--not sure about the title, please fix if you know the proper term-->

Johann Christian Brand (6 March 1722 &ndash; 12 June 1795)

was an Austrian painter (son of the German painter Christian Hilfgott Brand (1694–1756) who taught in Vienna with Karl Aigen) and brother of Friedrich August Brand.