John exhibits at the Royal Academy, Berlin, and the Exhibition of American Art, Munich. This may have been the exhibition that the German Kaiser requested in 1905 after seeing the portrait of Madame Gautreau (Madame X 1884). The Kaiser had thought her portrait the most fascinating woman's likeness that he has ever seen, and wanted Sargent to exhibit in Berlin.

May 8th: as the king lay dying, Sargent is summoned to make a portrait sketch.

May 19th: Walter Sickert's publishes an article entitled "Sargentolatry" in the New Age.

Sargent in the Alps
c. 1910

September: off to Siena, Bologna and Florence Italy with Henry Tonks.

October: stays at the Villa Torre Galli, Florance, his sister Emily, the de Glehns, Sir William Blake Richmond and Lady Richmond. He paints a series of studies at the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.

(See Two Studies in Light: a juxtaposition between Villa Torre Galli: The Loggia and Breakfast In The Loggia)

The party moves to Varramista, near Lucca and here he paints in the gardens of the Villa Collodi and the Villa Reale Marlia.

(See Sargent and the Italian Gardens -- Villa di Marlia, Lucca: The Balustrade)

November -- meanwhile, back in London the art world is in a turmoil. Roger Fry organizes "Manet and the Post Impressionists" exhibition at the Grafton Galleries in London which runs through January, 1911. Fry thought Impressionist had lost itself in the search for the fleeting nature of light on subjects. Through the work of  Cezanne, Van Gogh and Gauguin, Fry argues for this new Impressionism (what we would later understand as a small step towards abstraction) and he includes Sargent's name in a list of supporters of this movement in an article published in the Nation, December 24th. 

(see the Fry and the Post-Impressionist)

Sargent works on the east and west wall lunettes for the Boston Public Library murals.