ROLF HARRIS fell from favour in 2014 when he was sentenced to over five years in prison for sexual assault.
Before that, he had enjoyed a 60-year long career as an artist and entertainer.
Rolf Harris became a household name for his musical and television career that started in the 1960s.
He had a Christmas number one in the UK with Two Little Boys and performed at Glastonbury Festival several times.
However, his art work was not forgotten.
He became famous during the seventies for his BBC shows where he would slap paint on a big canvas with a large brush.
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Viewers would be trying to guess the image which would often look like a mess of paint.
The picture would gradually emerge as he said his catchphrase “Can you tell what it is yet?“
The Australian entertainer had paintings exhibited in galleries and he was given the honour of painting the Queen at Buckingham Palace for her 80th birthday.
His oil portrait of Her Majesty took him two months to finish and he unveiled it at Buckingham Palace in 2005.
Harris‘ paintings seemed to plummet in value after he was convicted as a sex offender in 2014.
Following his conviction, the guide price for his art is said to have decreased by more than half its previous value.
In 2016, an English auction house sold a Harris painting that had originally been worth £45,000, for just £7,500.
Many collectors of his work rushed to try and shift their art after a jury found him guilty of 12 counts of sexual abuse.
An eBay seller listed one of his paintings for £899 in 2021 – significantly less than it may have been worth eight years prior
However, in 2017, one collector was selling a Harris painting for £125,000.
The painting was called “Busses at Trafalgar” and it was believed that the collector purchased it for £90,000.
This £125,000 listing was unusual, however, with the majority of his art being priced on eBay between £500 and £1,650.
As of October 2022, Harris is reportedly “gravely ill” battling neck cancer and is receiving round-the-clock care.
He lives on a rural estate in Bray, Berkshire.
His health reportedly “rapidly declined” in 2019 and is said to have further deteriorated after the death of his poodle in 2022.
His neighbour, Portia Wooderson, said the Australian entertainer was “really attached” to his dog, Bumble, and the poodle’s sudden death “knocked him really badly”.
According to reports, the 92-year-old is being fed by a tube and is unable to talk.
He lives with his wife, Alwen Hughes, who is battling the later stages of Alzheimer’s.
The pair have lived at their home in Berkshire since Harris was released from prison in 2017, after serving three years for 12 counts of sexual assault.
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Upon his release from prison, his solicitor read a statement written by Harris: “I am 87 years old, my wife is in ill-health and we simply want to spend our remaining time together.”
The disgraced entertainer has not spoken publicly since he left prison.
