Lambert Barnard, also known as Lambert Bernardi (c.1485–1567), was an English Renaissance painter. Origins and style Barnard's place of birth is unknown. All of his extant works can be found in and around Chichester. His son, Anthony Barnard (c.1515–1619/20), and grandson, Lambert, and two descendant generations of painters (both also named Lambert) followed his path and remained in the city. Barnard worked in dry fresco and with oil on board. His style is characterized by the use of rich colours, heavy black outline, and lavish gilding. His work often suffered from heavy over-painting that obscured the delicacy of his hand, but it is still possible to see his knowledge of contemporary European practice. This hints that he might have served an apprenticeship with a Franco/Flemish workshop before c.1513, entering into the service of Robert Sherborn, Bishop of Chichester from 1508 to 1536. Barnard maintained a small workshop with an apprentice boy, John Foster, and his son, Anthony Barnard, who may also have worked alongside his father in the cathedral on his last commission. Records indicate that in 1533, at Bishop Sherborne's request, the Dean and Chapter of Chichester Cathedral granted Barnard an annual payment in recognition of "his long and good service." Following the bishop's death in 1536, Barnard remained in his tenement in East Street, Chichester, living on his annuity, occasionally updating his work on the portraits of kings and bishops, and making repairs to other works in the cathedral. Works Over the next twenty years in collaboration with the bishop, Barnard executed several works, the foliage and heraldry themed vaults of Chichester Cathedral (from c.1513); a domestic wall painting in the Vicar's Close in Chichester; a series of "The Nine Ladies Worthy", or "Heroines of Antiquity" referred to as "The Amberley Panels" (c.1526) for one of the bishop's residences, Amberley Castle; the Italianate heraldic ceiling of the Tudor Room of the Bishop's Palace in Chichester (c.1524–1528) and his most important work, " Chichester Cathedral Charter History Paintings" (1533). This latter is a large scheme originally displayed in the South Transept of Chichester Cathedral and depicts its early foundation at Selsey with the West Saxon King Caedwalla {The West Saxon Cædwalla conquered the South Saxons in AD 686.}} granting the See of Selsey to St Wilfrid and secondly, its continuation at Chichester showing Henry VIII Confirming to Bishop Sherborn the Royal Protection of Chichester Cathedral. These two conjoined panels