I saw Rolf Harris's dark side when I questioned his portrait of the Queen

When I challenged the artistic value of his painting, I saw a different man behind the beaming face. Now it's not just me thinking his art is suspect everyone's dumping his paintings

Long before Rolf Harris was convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault, including one against a girl aged seven or eight, I got a minor glimpse of his now notorious dark side.

I was sent to the press unveiling of his portrait of the Queen at her Buckingham Palace art gallery in 2005, at the height of his success when his Rolf on Art programmes had become the flagship of popular art history on the BBC ("Can you see what it is yet? It's Monet's waterlily pond ...")

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