He also submitted entries to the 1862 International Exhibition in London, the Franco-Spanish Exposition in Bayonne (1864), the Exposition Universelle (1867), where he was awarded a Third Class medal, the 1873 Vienna World's Fair and the World's Columbian Exposition in Philadelphia (1876). He was a personal friend of José Martí, the poet refers to him as 'the good friend' in his poems.