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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight is an 1835 seascape painting by the British artist J.M.W. Turner .[ 1] It is set at the port of Newcastle in the North East of England . Keelmen are unloading coal from the flat-bottomed boats that has brought it up the Tyne River to the ships that will carry it on its onwards journey. The scene is illuminated by a flood of moonlight and the blazing torches of the keelmen
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It was commissioned by the Manchester textile manufacturer. Henry McConnell as a companion piece by another work of Turner's featuring Venice The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore . [ 3] [ 4] The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy 's 1835 Summer Exhibition at Somerset House . Today it is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. .[ 5]
Bailey, Anthony. J.M.W. Turner: Standing in the Sun . Tate Enterprises Ltd, 2013.
Hamilton, James. Turner - A Life . Sceptre, 1998.
Paintings
Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795 –1800)
Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795 –1800)
Diana and Callisto (c. 1796 )
Fishermen at Sea (1796)
Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797 )
Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797 )
Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798 )
Buttermere Lake (1798)
Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798 )
Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798 )
View of a Town (c. 1798 )
Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
Self-Portrait (c. 1799 )
View in Wales (c. 1799 –1800)
Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799 –1800)
A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800 )
A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800 )
Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800 )
Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801)
Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802)
Calais Pier (1803)
View on Clapham Common (c. 1800 –1805)
The Shipwreck (1805)
Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805)
Walton Bridges (1806)
A Country Blacksmith (1807)
Sun Rising through Vapour (1807)
Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
The Garreteer's Petition (1809)
London from Greenwich Park (1809)
Ploughing Up Turnips (1809)
The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810)
High Street, Oxford (1810)
Apollo and Python (1811)
Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
Frosty Morning (1813)
Dido and Aeneas (1814)
Dido building Carthage (1815)
Crossing the Brook (1815)
The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
Dort or Dordrecht (1818)
The Field of Waterloo (1818)
Richmond Hill (1819)
Entrance of the Meuse (1819)
Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
The Bay of Baiae (1823)
The Harbour of Dieppe (1825)
Cologne (1826)
Forum Romanum (1826)
Mortlake Terrace (1826)
Port Ruysdael (1826)
The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828)
Chichester Canal (1828)
East Cowes Castle (1828)
Regulus (1828)
View of Orvieto (1828)
The Loretto Necklace (1829)
Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
The Evening Star (1830)
Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)
Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832)
The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
The Golden Bough (1834)
Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834).
St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834)
The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)
Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)
Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835)
Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835 )
Juliet and her Nurse (1836)
The Fighting Temeraire (1838)
Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
The Slave Ship (1840)
Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
Venice from the Giudecca (1840)
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
The Blue Rigi (1842)
The Red Rigi (1842)
Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
Light and Colour (1843)
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845 )
Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845 )
Whalers (c. 1845 )
Queen Mab's Cave (1846)
The Departure of the Fleet (1850)
The Beacon Light (unknown)
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