JSS was great admirer of music, and was a close friend of the French composer Gabriel Faur (1845-1924). In fact,  Sargent is an outstanding amateur musician himself and played the piano since he was a child. He played often when he painted and played for friends. As a boy, his music teacher had been distraught when Sargent quit to study painting -- he had shown an ability for playing that was unusual and thought he would make a concert pianist. 

In October he paints Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children.

He paints the portrait of the British statesman Joseph Chamberlain [p]. 

He stays in London and doesn't take any trips.

From January through February he travels for mural inspiration to Sicily to see the Cathedral in Palermo, Florence and then to Rome to see the Boegia Apartments in the Vatican decorated by Pinuricchio “there he found the vital precedent he needed to smooth the eccentric marriage of iconography he was himself performing across the walls and ceiling in Boston” (Olson, p.216)


In the spring he exhibits Mrs. Carl Meyer and Her Children [p] at the Royal Academy along with The Honorable Laura Lister [p]  to quite a bit of applause.

He is elected full member to both the Royal Academy, London, and the National Academy of Design, New York. For his two diploma paintings he submits Professor Johannes Wolff   and Portrait of Claude Monet [p] to the RA and the NA of D respectfully.

April he visits Scotland with the Playfairs. 

He begins teaching at the Royal Academy School, London and would do so for three years.

He is made an officer of the French Legion d'Honneur.