THE LATE MR. BIINNEY.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR"]
SIR,—Yon have referred more than once in your columns to' the recent death of Mr. Bonney, the painter of Mr. Ruskin's large picture of " St. Mark's, Venice," now at the Venice Exhi- bition. Will you allow me to mention that some of his friends are collecting a sum of money to be presented to his widow, as a- gift expressive of their sympathy for her, and of the value they set upon the kind of work to which his life was devoted P Mr. Ruskin has given £50, and the P.R.A. is also a contributor. To any of your readers who may wish to have them, I shall be glad to send further particulars. Mrs. Bonney, I may add, has now sent to England the greater part of the drawings and sketches of Venice left by her husband. These are at 148
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