biography of Michael Strieby NACHTRIEB (1835-1916)

Birth place: Wooster, OH

Death place: Wooster

Addresses: Wooster

Profession: Portrait, landscape, still life & ornamental painter

Studied: NYC

Comments: Did decorative painting in Ohio and on Mississippi River steamboats. Painted portraits of Lincoln, Edwin Booth, the College of Bishops of the Episopal Church, and the founders and early presidents of Wooster (OH) College. He was at Cleveland in 1857.

Sources: G&W; Clark, Ohio Art and Artists, 481; WPA (Ohio), Annals of Cleveland.