Nicholas Revett

According to the Dictionary of National Biography, they became acquainted with Sir James Gray, K.B., the British resident at Venice, prior to visiting Greece, and through his agency, they were elected members of the Society of Dilettanti in London.

The Society was founded by men including Gray who had been on the Grand Tour:[3] its patronage was to prove important to Revett.

In England Revett and Stuart prepared their work for publication and found subscribers for The Antiquities of Athens.

[citation needed] Although their French rival Julien-David Le Roy published his book about ancient Greek monuments Les Ruines des plus beaux bâtiments de la Grèce before The Antiquities of Athens, the accuracy of Revett and Stuart's work gives their survey a claim to be the first of its kind in studies of ancient Greece; for example, Revett and Stuart were the first Europeans to describe the existence of ancient Greek polychromy.

He considered himself a gentleman and he was probably sufficiently well-off not to have to earn his living, although he is said to have experienced "pecuniary difficulties" towards the end of his life.

Revett designed two 'Greek' additions to English country houses which arguably commenced the British 'Greek Revivalist' period in architecture from the 1760s.

This property was designed in 1780 for the patron of the living Sir Francis Dashwood and is Revett's only known complete domestic building.