An internationally famous artist has been convicted of sex offences against young children who modelled for him in the 1970s and 1980s.
Graham Ovenden, 70, was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one of indecent assault, by a jury at Truro Crown Court in Cornwall.
He was acquitted of five other charges of indecent assault.
Ovenden, who was not in court for the verdicts due to illness, denied all the charges relating to four children between 1972 and 1985.
Christopher Quinlan QC, defending, told Judge Graham Cottle that Ovenden was resting at home having received treatment at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.
The incidents are said to have taken place at Ovenden's former and current addresses, in London and Cornwall, respectively.
Ovenden had been described in court by prosecutor Ramsay Quaife as "a paedophile", who abused children while they modelled for him.
The four victims contacted police long after the abuse is alleged to have taken place, and only when they realised exactly what had happened to them as girls, the court heard.
But Ovenden denied the abuse ever happened. He told the court he had taken pictures of children - including those in various states of undress - but said they were not indecent.
He described himself in court as a modest man, but told police he had a "major reputation" for creating "some of the best portraits of children in the last 200 years".
He also described the "witch-hunt" against those who produce work involving naked children, accusing police of "falsifying" images recovered from his home computer.
Ovenden, of Barley Splatt, near Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, denied having a sexual interest in children.
The judge adjourned sentence on a date to be fixed but told counsel the hearing would take place at Plymouth Crown Court.
Ovenden was released on bail.
A former pupil of pop artist Sir Peter Blake, Ovenden graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1968.
He has had exhibitions at London's Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
In 1975 he founded the artistic movement the Brotherhood of Ruralists - artists who had left the city to live in the countryside.
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