“Breaking: Palestine Action spray and slash a historic painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, University of Cambridge,” the group’s post stated The vandalism of the portrait marks an escalation ...

The Palestine Action activist slashed the 1914 painting of Lord Balfour at Trinity College, part of the University of Cambridge, on 8 March 2024.

The Hever Castle curators took their hunch to Trinity College and experts now believe its identification makes it the sole remaining object from any 16th-century portrait surviving today.

At the time, Palestine Action said, in a statement: "Palestine Action ruined a 1914 painting by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College, University of Cambridge, of Lord Arthur James ...