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Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight by Turner, 1835 Size:16x20in (40x50cm) Monumental importance in the historyKeelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight is a luminous painting by the celebrated British artist Joseph Mallord William Turner, known simply as Turner. Painted in 1835, this evocative artwork captures the bustling activity of the Keelmen, laborers of the River Tyne, toiling under the ethereal moonlight as they transfer coals from ship to shorea vital process that powered the region and its industries during the height of Britain's industrial revolution.