XIR32137 Portrait of Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (oil on canvas) by French School, (18th century); 36 x 53 cm; Ch璽teau de Versailles, France; (add.info.: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, baron de Laune (1727-81) French economist and statesman. He was a Physiocrat (Physiocracy was a school of economics founded in 18th-century France and characterized chiefly by a belief that government policy should not interfere with the operation of natural economic laws and that land is the source of all wealth. It is generally regarded as the first scientific school of economics). He advocated reform and abolition of privileges in France and as Minister of the Navy (1774-76) he opposed French financial support of the American Revolutionary War on the grounds of economy.); French, out of copyright.