Robert Le Vrac de Tournières (1667 – 1752)

• 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.

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