Eleanor Coade (3 or 24 June 1733 – 18 November 1821)"Eleanor Coade"
Alison Kelly, ''Oxford National Dictionary of Biography''
correction per Caroline Stanford
/ref> was a British businesswoman known for manufacturing Neoclassical statues, architectural decorations and garden ornaments made of ''Lithodipyra'' (

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) for over 50 years from 1769 until her death. She should not be confused or conflated with her mother, also named Eleanor. ''Lithodipyra'' ("stone fired twice") was a high-quality, durable moulded weather-resistant,

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; statues and decorative features from this still look almost new today. Coade did not invent 'artificial stone', as various inferior quality precursors had been both patented and manufactured over the previous forty years, but she probably perfected both the formulation and the firing process. She combined high-quality manufacturing and artistic taste, together with entrepreneurial, business and marketing skills, to create the overwhelmingly successful stone products of her age. She produced stoneware for

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; The Royal Pavilion, Brighton;

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and the

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. Shortly after her death, her company produced a large quantity of stoneware used in the refurbishment of

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. Born in Exeter to two families of wool merchants and weavers, she ran her business, "Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory", "Coade and Sealy" and latterly "Coade" ( by appointment to

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and the

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), for fifty years in Lambeth, London. A devout

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, she died unmarried in Camberwell. In 1784 an uncle, Samuel Coade, gave her Belmont House, a holiday villa in

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, her late father's town of origin. She decorated the house extensively with Coade stone.

Personal life

Early life

Eleanor Coade was born on 3 June 1733 in

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, the elder daughter of the Nonconformist (devout

) family of George and Eleanor Coade. George Coade (1706–1769) was a wool merchant originally from Lyme Regis,Rootsweb, "George Coade, born 1706, was christened 06 NOV 1706 in Lyme Regis, Dorset UK, and died 1769."
/ref> and his wife Eleanor (Elinore, née Enchmarch) (c.1708–1796) was the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Enchmarch (d.1735),"Bampton House", History of Tiverton Wool Trade
, Tiverton Civic Society, accessed 23 January 2014 merchants and textile manufacturers of

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. Eleanor's younger sister Elizabeth was born 1738 in Exeter. Eleanor's maternal grandmother Sarah Enchmarch was a successful business woman in Tiverton, running the family textile business for 25 years after her husband Thomas died in 1735. Since the Middle Ages, the town had been a centre of the woollen textile business, with thousands of workers. Mrs Enchmarch employed 200 people making cloth, and used spies to learn the latest techniques used in

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. She was known to travel around Tiverton in a

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. In 1749, with revenues from her business, she re-built the Enchmarch mansion.

Later life

About 1760, following George Coade's bankruptcy, the Coade family moved from Exeter to London. By the mid-1760s, daughter Eleanor Coade was running her own business as a

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in the City of London.Dr. Nicola Phillips, "Eleanor Coade", May 2009
, Addidi Inspiration Award for Female Entrepreneurs As was customary for unmarried women in business at the time, she used ''Mrs'' as a courtesy title.Alison Kelly, ''Mrs Coade's Stone,'' p. 23 In early 1769 the family were living at St Thomas Apostles Street when her father George Coade died that year, after having gone

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for the second time. From around 1769, when the daughter Eleanor Coade bought an artificial stone factory, she lived on the factory premises at Narrow Wall, Lambeth. Bills show that she was directly managing the factory by 1771 at the latest. In 1784 Eleanor Coade was given Belmont House,

, Dorset, by her uncle Samuel Coade. It had been built in 1774 by Simon Bunter, an attorney at law from

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. It was a simple two-storey Georgian seaside villa known as Bunter's Castle but renamed Belmont House by the Coade family. Author

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lived therePast Remains: Belmont House
Free Webs from 1968 to 2005 and it is now owned by the

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. By 1811 Coade was living in Great Surrey Street (later

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. At the time of her death in 1821 she was living in Camberwell Grove,

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, London.

Exhibition of sculpture

Eleanor Coade exhibited at the Society of Artists between 1773 and 1778 and in 1780, as listed in their exhibitors’ catalogue: however, whilst she was listed by the society as a sculptor, Caroline Stanford has suggested that whether the sculptures "were works modelled by herself or produced in her name is still unclear – the documentary evidence implies the latter". "COADE, Miss Eleanor ... Sculptor. Society of Artists. Artificial Stone Manufactory, Kings-Arms Stairs, Lambeth. ;1773 * 59 A figure of

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, for a sun-dial. ;1774 * 53 A chimney piece, in artificial stone, for a nobleman's hall. From a design of Mr. Johnson's. * 54 A vestal and pedestal; in artificial stone. * 55 A sybyl; in artificial stone. * 367 A statue and pedestal for a candalabrum. * 368 A tripod. ;1775 * 385 A

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; in artificial stone. * 386 A Pomona. * 387 A Candalabrum. * 388 A Tripod and Pedestal. ;1776 * 193 A

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. * 194 Three statues for Candalabrums. * 196 Phrygian Boy and Girl; a Tablet. * 197 Boy and Dolphin. Mrs, Coade, Artificial Stone Manufactory, Kings' Arms Stairs, Lambeth. ;1777 * 181 A Vase, after the Antique, in the

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. * 182 A Lion. * 183 Hymen and Psyche; two figures for Candalabrums. * 184 A statue of Flora. * 185 A statue of Pomona. * 186 A statue of

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. * 187 A statue of a Sybil. ;1778 * 284 Charity; in artificial stone. * 285 A Lion; in artificial stone. * 286 A Group of Figures; executed for the Marine Society. * 287 A Figure for Candalabrum. * 288 A Vase, intended for a monumental inscription. * 289 A Pedestal, from a design of James Paine, Esq., intended for a sundial. ;1780 * 47 Statue of Time; in artificial stone. * 48 A clock case; in artificial stone.

Death and commemoration

Eleanor Coade was a devout

. She never married and died on 18 November 1821 in Camberwell Grove,

, London. Her obituary notice was published in ''

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,'' which declared her 'the sole inventor and proprietor of an art which deserves considerable notice'. Although it extolled the virtues of Coade Stone, the obituary contained no reference to her private life.Obituary: Eleanor Coade
''The Gentleman's Magazine,'' Volume 130, Por John Nichols. In her will and testament, Coade left much of her fortune to charity schools and clergymen, plus her family. A proponent of women's rights, she also left money to a few married women friends, stating that their husbands were to have no control over the funds. Her body is buried in an unmarked grave at

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cemetery in the

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, which was used by many Nonconformists. She is commemorated by the Coade Stone, placed under

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alongside the footpath to

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, which now occupies the site of her factory at "Narrow Wall". The Coade Stone is the bottom stone of a horse-mill used in her factory, a wheel-shaped

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with a prominent internal axle lip. It is placed on a 30-degree slope beside the under-bridge footpath."Coade Stone"
''Local History'' website, from "Coade Stone.doc 9-12-2007"

Artificial stone business

In late 1769, at the age of 36, Eleanor Coade bought Daniel Pincot's struggling artificial stone business at Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall,

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, a site now occupied by the

.Parks and Gardens. Eleanor Coade – artist in artificial stone. By Timur Tatlioglu.
/ref> She took charge and developed this business as "Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory". Within two years (1771), she sacked Pincot for "representing himself as the chief proprietor"."Coade's Lithodipyra, or, Artificial Stone Manufactory"
, Yale University Library, The ceramic stoneware product was marketed as "Coade's Lithodipyra", for the next 50 years. Pincot's business may have been related to that run nearby by Richard Holt, who had taken out two

patents A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an sufficiency of disclosure, enabling discl ...

in 1722: one for a kind of liquid metal or stone, and another for making china without the use of clay. There were many start-up 'artificial stone' businesses in the early 18th century, of which only Mrs Coade's succeeded. She manufactured products from ceramic in a process to look like stone, and it proved highly durable.Alison Kelly, ''Mrs. Coade's Stone'' (1990) John Bacon, a talented sculptor, had worked for Mrs Coade since 1769. In 1771 she appointed him as works supervisor; he directed both model-making and design until his death in 1799. His neo-classical models won awards from the Society for the Encouragement of Arts and royal patronage. Their joint success meant that the Coade Artificial Stone Manufactory gained the business of all the eminent Georgian architects, including

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, John Nash, and

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. Throughout this period of the late 18th century, Mrs Coade also employed designers and modellers such as John Devaere (John De Vaere (1755–1830)) before he joined

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in 1790,), John Charles Felix Rossi, J. G. Bubb, Thomas Dubbin,

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(later a successful painter), and Joseph Panzetta (1789–1830). The latter worked for Coade for more than 26 years; his most prominent work was Lord Hill's Column in Shrewsbury. After 1780 Coade was commissioned by King

to make the Gothic screen (and possibly also replace part of the ceiling) of

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Coade and Sealy sculpture gallery Westminster Bridge 1802

In 1784 she created a comprehensive catalogue of 746 designs produced by the company. It included

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; busts; whole panels;

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;

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;

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lions; paterae;

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;

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; pinnacles; chimneypieces; furniture; interior ornaments; and mouldings. As ceramic moulds could be reused, some had a working life of over 50 years, leading to high efficiency in production. In 1799 Mrs Coade recruited her cousin John Sealy as a partner in her business. (He was the son of her mother's sister Mary Enchmarch Sealy.) The company then traded as 'Coade and Sealy' until his death, aged 64, in October 1813, when it reverted to 'Coade'. She also opened a show room, ''Coade's Gallery,'' on Pedlar's Acre at the Surrey end of

Road to display her products. In 1813 Coade recruited William Croggon as manager to succeed Sealy; he was a sculptor from

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in Cornwall. (He was a distant cousin by marriage, the brother-in-law of Coade's cousin William Oke, son of her aunt Frances (née Enchmarch)), Croggon worked as manager until Coade's death. At that time, he bought the firm from her estate for circa £4,000, although he had hoped to inherit it. From 1814 onwards, Croggon paid rates for the factory.Timur Tatlioglu, "Eleanor Coade – artist in artificial stone"
Parks and Gardens, sourced from (Roberts & Godfrey 1951, 58–61)] The business continued to be successful long after Coade's death, but Croggon went bankrupt in 1833 because of both changing tastes and the failure of the Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, Duke of York to pay his debts.Fairweather, "History of Coade stone," Synopsised from original research in ''Mrs Coade's Stone'' by Alison Kelly.
"William Croggon"
Parks and Gardens UK website

Business methods

Coade's success as a businesswoman was very rare in the Georgian era. She was a hard-working individual who concentrated on methodical procedures to produce consistently high quality products. She was the first and only person to succeed in the artificial stone business, thanks to a combination of managerial skills, entrepreneurial flair, and a talent for marketing and public relations. She closely supervised both the preparation of clay mixtures and the firing process for all her products. Within two years of buying the business, she sacked Pincot, the former owner, for disciplinary reasons. She published adverts for her business on 11 and 14 September 1771 in ''The Daily Advertiser'', ''Gazetteer'' and ''The New Daily Advertiser''. She cultivated strong business relationships with respected architects and designers, as she could produce multiple copies of their designs. Her success may be gauged by

's complaint that he "could not get architects to endorse his new chimney-piece plaques".Alison Kelly, "Coade Stone in Georgian Architecture"
''Architectural History,'' Vol. 28, 1985, at JStor.

Coade stone business

The factory produced large ceramic statues and all manner of decorative architectural features, which proved to be extremely durable. This material resisted corrosion by London's polluted air, made damaging by coal exhausts, formation of acid rain, and byproducts. Coade stone works included the frontispiece of the original

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shop (tea merchants) on the Strand; private ornaments in the rear of

; the lion on

; the

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Pediment at the

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(the mural above the terrace's main entrance was reckoned by the Coade workers as the finest of all their work); the statue of

on the seafront at

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; the stone awning and statues at

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, Pall Mall, London; and the crest on the

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. The plaques at

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near

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were also made of Coade stone.

Notes

References

Sources

* * . * * Kelly, Alison, ''Coade, Eleanor (1733–1821)'', rev., Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
accessed 22 Jan 2009
* *

External links

Gallery of images.
Plate 48: A view of Westminster Bridge, 1791. shows King's Arms Stairs in the foreground (possibly) with a sign advertising Coade's factory.

COADE'S ARTIFICIAL STONE MANUFACTORY, circa 1800

Plate 38a: Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory 1801

Plate 39a: The entrance to Coade and Sealy's Gallery of Sculpture, Westminster Bridge, 1802

by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd
Parks and Gardens UK, Eleanor Coade – artist in artificial stone

Thomason Cudworth
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