Henry Jeckyll was an English architect and designer active from the 1850s, celebrated for his early contribution to the Aesthetic Movement and for pioneering Anglo-Japanese design in Britain. Based in Norwich, he collaborated extensively with the ironfounders Barnard, Bishop & Barnard, creating fire grates, metalwork, and garden furnishings that combined crisp geometry with Japanese-inspired motifs.
Jeckyll also designed interiors for London townhouses, most notably the decorative scheme that later became Whistler’s Peacock Room, a landmark of the movement. His work helped establish the fusion of Eastern pattern and Western craftsmanship that defined Aesthetic design. Though his career was shortened by illness, he left a lasting influence on Victorian decorative arts and the rise of Japonisme in Britain.
