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Nicholas Revett (1721-1804) was an eighteenth-century English gentleman, famous during his lifetime as an amateur architect. Although he became overshadowed by his contemporaries - Robert Adam, Robert Mylne and Sir John Soane, among others, he remains one of the most influential designers of the Georgian age.

This lecture traces Revett's life and influence on neoclassicism and examines what his surviving works mean for modern understandings of architectural heritage and history.

Jason M Kelly is Assistant Professor of British History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and a Visiting Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at Newcastle University. He specialises in eighteenth-century culture, specifically the histories of the British Grand Tour, masculinity, and architecture.

Dr Kelly has published articles in the Journal of British Studies, The British Art Journal, and The American Journal of Semiotics. His monograph, The Society of Dilettanti: Archaeology and Identity in the British Enlightenment, will be published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press later this year.