She briefly studied sculpture with Shobal Vail Clevenger .
She briefly produced a bas - relief medallion portrait of her dying brother George Peabody and , shortly thereafter , a similar work of Ralph Waldo Emerson 's dead brother Charles .
She briefly studied sculpture with Shobal Vail Clevenger and produced a bas - relief medallion portrait of her dying brother George Peabody and , shortly thereafter , a similar work of Ralph Waldo Emerson 's dead brother Charles .