Rieber (née Smith) was born on January 22, 1872, in Carson City, Nevada.
[1] Notable subjects she portrayed include William Carey Jones,[2] Arthur Shipley,[3] William James, George Herbert Palmer, and Josiah Royce.
[4] She also created portraits of Wesley Clair Mitchell[5] and Franz Boas.
[6] In 1890, she married the educator and philosopher Charles H. Rieber (1866–1948).
[9] Rieber died on January 25, 1963, aged 91, in Sonoma, California.