Having served his apprenticeship under Messrs. Coade and Sealy, Mark Blanchard (d.1870) set up on his own account in the Lambeth Road in 1839. It is most likely that he purchased some of the Coade moulds at the sale of 1843 and as late as 1855, in an advertisement placed in the Builder, claimed himself to be "late of Coade's original works, and successor to them in the manufacture of this invaluable material that has been so successfully adopted for nearly a century in this country by our eminent architects and others....". Adopting Coade's formula and style but later changing over to the strongly coloured terracotta favoured by the Victorians, Blanchard was rewarded for his work at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Examples can be seen at Buckingham Palace and in the enrichments tohe Victoria and Albert museum.