It appears that at least three of these statues were made by Messrs Coade.
One is at Ham House, another is at Terrace Garden Richmond and a third at Moor Park, Herts.
The Richmond version below image from
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The Moor Park Coade Stone River God.
The recently rediscovered Moor Park River God lies semi-hidden at Moor Park at Rickmansworth. Although headless and armless it is recognisably the same as the Ham House river god, even to the Code signature nestling inside.
It appears to have been moved to its present position in a 19th century shrubbery during a remodeling of the gardens by Lord Ebury and was still intact when the mansion was sold to Lord Leverhulme in 1919 to convert to a country-club come golf course.
Lady Susan Grosvenor returned to her childhood haunts and described ‘Neptune’ as being ‘brown with age,…, head engulfed in a Portuguese laurel’ but with water still trickling from the pitcher in his hand (though it looks more like tucked under his arm).
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Commerce, or the Triumph of the Thames (painting 4 of 6 in
the series 'The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture')
James Barry (1741–1806)
Royal Society of Arts.
https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/commerce-or-the-triumph-of-the-thames-218503
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