Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager (1814–1879) was a French painter, noted for his marine scenes and Orientalist works.

[2] In 1840, he accompanied the fleet which repatriated Napoleon's remains from St. Helena, and the island afforded him subjects for various paintings.

He spent much of his time travelling: He went to Buenos Aires with the squadron, Montevideo in 1841–42 aboard a French warship,[3] and explored Uruguay and Brazil; he accompanied the expeditions to Tangiers and Mogador, and to Madagascar.

In the 1850s, Durand-Brager was in the Crimea during the war with Russia, where he turned his hand to photography as well as painting.

He was one of about fifteen photographers, including Felice Beato, Roger Fenton and James Robertson, who photographed soldiers, barracks, camp life and battlefields and were the first to record a major war on film.