Johannes van der Bent (c. 1650–1690), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

According to Houbraken he was a student of Philips Wouwerman and Adriaen van de Velde.

Houbraken thought he caught the disease from melancholy resulting from losing a large sum of money (said to be 4,000 Dutch florins, a very large sum for a painter to have), which depressed him.

It is unclear how he came into the possession of such a large sum of money, whether by selling paintings or by inheritance.

According to the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), some of his works have been incorrectly attributed to Nicolas Berchem.