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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The Coade Manufactory - in the Yard.
Two men mixing something by the Pump.
George Shepherd (c. 1782 - c. 1830).
Watercolour.
They suggest c. 1800.
https://www.watercolourworld.org/collections/89f0de8d-1ed4-37b1-bbf8-6516a3a1e9bc/?s%3DCoade&pos=4
Image courtesy London Picture Archive.
https://londonpicturearchive.org.uk/view-item?i=17371
Mark Henry Blanchard was born at Portsea, Hampshire and
christened on 30 August 1817. He was apprenticed at the Coade Factory in
Lambeth in the firm's declining years, probably when it was managed by Thomas
John Croggon between c.1835-37, or after the business had been let to Thomas
Routledge and John Danforth Greenwood 1837 and lasted until 1840.
Blanchard commenced business in Blackfriars Road, Lambeth
shortly after 1840 (probably working initially in plaster) and then appears to
have acquired some of the Coade Factory's moulds when Routledge and Greenwood
consigned them at auction in 1843.
Note the continued use of a varient of the Coade engraving
in Blanchards promotional material (below) and the mention of John Bacon as
designer.
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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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