Portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infante_Carlos_Mar%C3%ADa_Isidro_of_Spain" class="extiw" title="en:Infante Carlos María Isidro of Spain">en:Infante Carlos María Isidro of Spain</a>, by court painter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_L%C3%B3pez_Porta%C3%B1a" class="extiw" title="en:Vicente López Portaña">en:Vicente López Portaña</a>. Carlos was brother of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_VII_of_Spain" class="extiw" title="en:Ferdinand VII of Spain">en:Ferdinand VII of Spain</a>, and his next in line in the Spanish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salic_law" class="extiw" title="en:Salic law">en:Salic law</a> of succession due to there being no direct male heir. However, when Ferdinand issued the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Sanction_of_1830" class="extiw" title="en:Pragmatic Sanction of 1830">en:Pragmatic Sanction of 1830</a>, the succession then passed on to his daughter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_II_of_Spain" class="extiw" title="en:Isabella II of Spain">en:Isabella II of Spain</a> as his first child (regardless of gender). This led to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlist_Wars" class="extiw" title="en:Carlist Wars">en:Carlist Wars</a> upon Ferdinand's death, a series of immensely bloody civil wars in Spain during the 19th century.
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Vicente_L%C3%B3pez_Porta%C3%B1a" class="extiw" title="w:en:Vicente López Portaña"><span title="Spanish painter (1772-1850)">Vicente López Portaña</span></a>
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first half of 19<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>
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