Georg Lukács praised Dery as being 'the greatest depicter of human beings of our time'.

Anthony Trollope, the brilliant depicter of the 19th-century social strata in England, would have appreciated the events of 2006, when truth trumped fiction.

MARY GORDON is often described as a gifted depicter of Irish-American life, but the classification is misleading: that subject is just one among the many she has memorably treated.

Brendan Gill, in his 1975 book "Here at The New Yorker," wrote, "It is fitting that this superlative depicter of domestic squalor should take care, in his own life, to surround himself with exquisite things."

Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 - 14 September 1743), French painter, was born in Paris, and became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.