Other than them both being pipers, I don't see any similarities.
Different poses, different pipes, different costume, one piper righthanded one lefthanded.
The Laird Grant pipes are beautifully painted, the bag is a perfect representation of a sheepskin bag from the colour to the seam running down the bottom edge and the tie-in cord binding the chanter stock in place.
The turning style survives today in Spain.
The Laird Grant pipes' drone tops are quite elegant shapes, such are seen on many European pipes and also sometimes on 18th century Highland, Lowland, and uilleann pipes.
Here's an old Highland set (no provenance which is typical) showing the bass drone top quite similar to the Laird Grant pipes and to Spanish pipes. The tenors have a different shape, seen on some Low Countries pipes.
as opposed to cartoonish pipers like these where the artist has simply put trumpets coming out of the bag. Note that the "drones" aren't in sections and 1) are too long to be turned on the lathes the woodwind makers used back then and 2) are impossible to tune.
Needless to say no such bagpipes have survived anywhere.
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