Meanings of first critic in English

My father was really the first critic in the family.

I reckon this spontaneous outburst from the first critic of the day is good to keep, ain't it, Paine?

Mr. Brownell was also the first critic to point out that Rodin's art was more nearly related to Donatello than to Michael Angelo.

And the first critic who seemed to place a just estimate on the work was Mr. Zangwill (he who has no Christian name).

What was a still greater honour, Jasmin was reviewed by the first critic of France-Sainte-Beuvein the leading critical journal, the Revue des deux Mondes.

Professor Wildmarsh, of the chair of Fine Arts and Archaeology, was the first critic to publish a detailed analysis of the master's methods and purpose.

They pertain to the time of the first critics of those poets.