• Tournières was a French painter. • Studying under Lucas Delahaye, then under Bon Boullogne and Rigaud. • Tournières was received twice into the Académie royale de peinture – first in 1702 as a portrait painter; and then on 24 October 1716, as a history painter. • Promoted to professeur auxiliaire in 1737, he exhibited successfully at the 1742 salon. • He produced large-scale paintings of which all trace is lost and small paintings in which he distinguished himself were preoccupied with Godfried Schalken and Gerard Dou.
• His father, an engraver by trade, had married a widow who had a son, who was François Lemoyne.
• After the Second World War, a street in the new Saint-Paul district of his home city of Caen was named rue Robert Tournières.