Diana, Princess of Wales (Bryan Organ portrait)

[1] The portrait depicts Diana sitting on a chair in the Yellow Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace dressed in a trouser suit and an open necked blouse.

After being held in custody after being denied bail Salmon pleaded guilty to a charge of causing criminal damage and was sentenced to 6 months in prison and ordered to pay $1,900 towards the painting's restoration.

[3] The trustee of the National Portrait Gallery Lord Kenyon said of the damage that "There is a horizontal slash across the picture and a vertical cut which runs a long way from head to foot.

[1] In his book Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence, Peter Burke describes the crossing of Diana's legs as taken as 'normal' in contrast to the shocked reaction of people to Thomas Gainsborough's 1760 portrait of the musician and singer Anne Ford.

"[1] Following Diana's death in 1997 Vanessa Thorpe wrote in The Independent that "This week, Organ's picture of the teenage bride-to-be has never looked more pathetic, yet it is perhaps more poignant still to contemplate the details of a portrait that will now never be".

[7] Niall MacMonagle writing in 2014 in the Irish Independent wrote that "She was "Shy Di", still a teenager, when this portrait, by Bryan Organ, was painted.

The plumpish cheeks, the big hair, the crossed legs in tailored trousers, the sideways and elegant chair, the ornate classical backdrop combine the traditional and contemporary...Now we know it all, the whole sorry mess.