Laughing Child is a 1958 Modernist portrait painting by Australian artist John Brack.

The painting depicts his daughter Charlotte as a young girl, in a dress and with messy hair, laughing.

[1] The painting was exhibited at Australian Galleries in Melbourne in 1958, where it was purchased by collector Cara Black for 50 Guineas.

[2][3] A representative of the auction house claimed the painting to be one of the "most compelling representations of childhood" in Australian art.

[1] Hoff, Ursula, Robert Lindsay and Patrick McCaughey (1987) John Brack A Retrospective Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Grishin, Sasha (1990) The Art of John Brack, Oxford University Press, Melbourne Vol.