Which painting was J.M.W. Turner’s first oil painting shown at the Royal Academy?

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J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838 — J.M.W. Turner *The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838*, oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1839; in the National Gallery, London.

J.M.W. Turner’s first oil painting exhibited at the Royal Academy was Fishermen at Sea, which was shown in 1796. A moonlight scene, the work was praised by a contemporary critic as the creation of an original mind.1