 During the anticlerical campaigns of the 1790s following the French Revolution, the altarpiece was apparently dismantled, possibly to separate the portraits from the central panel, which was very likely destroyed.The Fries Museum holds a "Portrait of Viglius of Aytta" dated 1564 which is attributed to de Punder.It depicts the Dutch statesman and jurist Viglius as chancellor of the Order of the Golden Fleece.