Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight is an 1835 seascape painting by the British artist J.M.W.
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.
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] This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub.