Grand Tourist: Miles Warren's European watercolours

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Throughout his career, Sir Miles produced watercolours that both documented and promoted his buildings. As a painter, his perspective was avowedly architectural, as is demonstrated by this selection of his watercolours from the collection at Ōhinetahi. “He cannot resist the detail”, an art teacher remarked of one of his student watercolour sketches. Fifty years later, Sir Miles was happy to admit, “I still cannot.”