<diacritize> He was a pupil of the New York National Academy of Design, where he took the Elliott prize in 1879, and in 1885 he won the Hallgarten prize with his landscape, The Woodland Brook. Register of Historic Places page 2. <yor>He was a pupil of the New York National Academy of Design, where he took the Elliott prize in 1879, and in 1885 he won the Hallgarten prize with his landscape, The Woodland Brook. Register of Historic Places page 2. 