Giuseppe Calì (14 August 1846 – 1 March 1930) was a Maltese painter of Italian descent.
Biography
Born in Valletta, Calì was baptised at the Dominican Parish Church of Porto Salvo, one of the seven offsprings of the artist and musician Raffaele Calì, set designer at the Royal Theatre, and of mezzo-soprano Giovanna Padiglione.
His parents, who were from Naples, had moved to British Malta in 1840.
At age 19, in 1865, thanks to the generosity of the merchant William Stephen Eynaud, The influences of both Mancinelli and Morelli are visible in the Death of Dragut and in other works of his early period.
thumb|333x333px|The bust of Calì located behind the [[Malta Stock Exchange in the Upper Barrakka Gardens]]
Calì's art soon found wide acceptance in Malta, where he got employed in decorating private houses with landscapes and portraits. Only after 1870 Calì started to accept Church commissions.
He also had a great influence on Maltese society, he painted about fifty portraits of famous people in Malta. This should include the portraits of Cardinal Lavigerie (1884), Cardinal Logue (1886), as well as Governor Richard More O'Ferrall, Marquis Emanuele Scicluna, Giovanni Battista Schembri, Achille Camilleri, Edward V. Ferro, Sir Victor Houlton,