The Bagpipe Lesson is a painting by Henry Ossawa Tanner, completed in late 1893 and displayed at the World's Columbian Exposition (May — October 1893) and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 63rd annual exhibition, held from December 18, 1893 to February 24, 1894.

[1] In parts of America, this was more widely popular in the 1890s than was The Banjo Lesson, due to sensitivity over racial relations.

[4] The painting made an impression at the exhibition, enough that it was one of three images from the 63rd Academy printed in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

[7] It was also displayed at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition (September-December 1895) in Atlanta, where it won a medal.

[9] However, it was important in that it was painted about the same time as The Banjo Lesson and The Thankful Poor, works in which Tanner made a "conceptual transformation" by applying it to African Americans.