Portrait of Edward Burd Grubb

Edward Burd Grubb, Sr. (1810-1867) was a prominent fourth-generation member of the Grubb Family Iron Dynasty in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After 1840, Grubb became an abolitionist. His estate in Burlington, New Jersey is said to have been a station on the Underground Railroad. Thomas Sully (1783-1872) was a portrait painter who was born in Britain but lived most of his life in Philadelphia. Sully had a great influence over Lancaster, Pennsylvania portrait artist Jacob Eichholtz.