A story from his school years recounts a teacher being pleasantly surprised by a superb portrait that Chopin had drawn of him in class.
It included some superb portraits.
One 1965 reviewer called the book "a brilliantly written, unsparing realistic story, a superb portrait of an extraordinary child."
The superb portraits of some 35 old men and women will, however, be of interest and use to students of human senescence, senility, and longevity.
Intended for the general reader, it provides a superb portrait of the man who terrorized his country for 30 years and inflicted the cold war on the rest of the world.
FHM called the book a "superb portrait of the conflicted, contradictory man [that] doesn't duck his uglier aspects."
Abu al-Hasan's main task was the documentation of events at the imperial court, which resulted in many superb portraits.
A superb portrait for the general reader of the mean-spirited little man who terrorized the Soviet Union for 30 years.
The college now describes it thus: "Today the once maligned picture is celebrated as a great nineteenth-century medical history painting, featuring one of the most superb portraits in American art".
Whistler praised Millais' picture as "a great work" and "a superb portrait."