Ricardo Velosa is a Brazilian-born Portuguese scupltor and a professor at the Higher Institute of Plastic Arts at the University of Madeira.
[2][3] He is known for creating busts of profilic Portuguese figures on the island of Madeira.
He is known for creating several works, the best known of his being the bust of Cristiano Ronaldo outside the entrance of Museu CR7 located in Funchal, Portugal.
[4][5][6][7] Other notable works of his include sculpting a bronze bust portrait of Francisco Sá Carneiro, the former prime minister of Portugal from January to December 1980 along with a scuplture called the Homenagem aos Carreiros, depicting a toboggan driver pushing his cart downhill.
Other works of his also include a prominent bust of Júlio Dinis, an important novelist and poet of modern Portugal, being the first to produce literature meant for middle-class readers.