Following up on my previous post, the same artist did a portrait of the Laird of Grant’s piper. I have also found an article about the portrait and the status of pipers and other musicians at the court of a Highland Chief.

Many members of colgaffneyis have probably seen photos of this well known 1714 portrait of the Laird of Grant’s Champion (twolodge could model for it). I just found an interesting discussion of it as a political and social statement in its day.