Son of the Infante Luis de Borbón and of María Teresa de Vallabriga, the Cardinal (1777-1823) was only permitted to use his father’s surname and coat-of-arms following the marriage of his sister, the Countess of Chinchón, to Manuel Godoy in 1797. In 1800 Luis María was made Archbishop of Seville and of Toledo and in late 1813, when the Peninsular War ended, he was appointed President of the Consejo de la Regencia. It was very probably the Cardinal who commissioned The Second of May 1808 and The Third of May 1808 from Goya. There are several copies and replicas of this official portrait, the original of which is in the Museo de Arte in São Paulo, Brazil.