Luite Klaver (21 September 1870 – 28 November 1960) was a Dutch painter, lithographer and inventor. Klaver was born in

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, the son of Hendricus Jacobus Klaver, a carpenter and grocer, and Evelina Lubberta Barendsen. His talent as artist was apparent from an early age. He worked as an apprentice carpenter for some years and received painting tuition from another Hattem resident, the landscape painter Jan Voerman Snr. In 1892 he arrived in

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to study painting. Here he met fellow student Gerarda Jacoba Doyer, born in

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on 4 May 1864, to a family of French

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descent. They were married in 1898 and settled in

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, where Luite started a nursery growing flowers and vegetables. He happened to be the first horticulturist to cultivate

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s. His artistic talent and scientific accuracy in depicting plants is evident in the numerous lithographs that appeared in six books, published by Sederius and S.L. van Looy. Between 1895 and 1898 Klaver studied at the Rijksnormaalschool in Amsterdam, which trained high school teachers. He also photographed art works for ''van Meurs and Co'', augmenting his income. Luite and Gerarda had three children born in

– Clare Helena (1899), Eveline Hendrika (1902) and Dirk Anton (1911). Gerarda died in 1915 of

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. Luite and the 3 children finally settled in

on the estate of Molecaten. In 1918 Luite married Gerarda's niece, Egberta Hendrika Barendsen (born in

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on 19 October 1875 and died in 1945). They later moved to

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, where he was part of the management of a factory producing photographic materials. Luite became interested in colour photography and patented various cameras using

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and glass plates coated with colour-sensitive emulsions. A gallery of his photographs is at the Prentenkabinet Museum in

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. Most of his paintings belong to his descendants, while some are with th
Voerman museum
in Hattem. He died, aged 90, in

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, and was buried in

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Voerman MuseumDigital museum
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