 The following year he was elected an honorary professional member in the prestigious National Academy of Design, which granted him full membership in 1861.He died suddenly in North Conway at the age of 46.The posthumous sale of his estate revealed that he owned works by "old masters such as Rembrandt, Dürer, Ostade, and Raphael and contemporaries including Rosa Bonheur, Ary Scheffer, and George Caleb Bingham."