Null exception with Colour by Conservation followed by a real colour scheme

I tried to apply the BLOSUM62 colourscheme after already having applied the Colour by Conservation to an alignment which had no colourscheme defined (only groups).

java.lang.NullPointerException
at jalview.schemes.Blosum62ColourScheme.findColour(Blosum62ColourScheme.java:37)
at jalview.schemes.ConservationColourScheme.findColour(ConservationColourScheme.java:47)
at jalview.gui.SequenceRenderer.getBoxColour(SequenceRenderer.java:38)
at jalview.gui.SequenceRenderer.drawBoxes(SequenceRenderer.java:69)
at jalview.gui.SequenceRenderer.drawSequence(SequenceRenderer.java:49)
at jalview.gui.SeqCanvas.drawPanel(SeqCanvas.java:316)
at jalview.gui.SeqCanvas.paintComponent(SeqCanvas.java:213)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:808)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JLayeredPane.paint(JLayeredPane.java:557)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JLayeredPane.paint(JLayeredPane.java:557)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:817)
at javax.swing.JLayeredPane.paint(JLayeredPane.java:557)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintChildren(JComponent.java:647)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintWithOffscreenBuffer(JComponent.java:4802)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paintDoubleBuffered(JComponent.java:4748)
at javax.swing.JComponent.paint(JComponent.java:798)
at java.awt.GraphicsCallback$PaintCallback.run(GraphicsCallback.java:21)
at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runOneComponent(SunGraphicsCallback.java:60)
at sun.awt.SunGraphicsCallback.runComponents(SunGraphicsCallback.java:97)
at java.awt.Container.paint(Container.java:1312)
at sun.awt.RepaintArea.paint(RepaintArea.java:177)
at sun.awt.motif.MComponentPeer.handleEvent(MComponentPeer.java:405)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:3678)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1627)
at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:1606)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:3477)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:456)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:201)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:151)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:145)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:137)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:100)