Biography
Geoffrey Wylde (b. Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa 1903 - d. 1972) studied at the Michaelis School of Fine Art under John Wheatley, 1925–6. During 1927–31 Wylde held a temporary position in the Department of Architecture at Cape Town University, serving from 1931–5 at the Michaelis School as a junior lecturer. He emigrated to London in the latter part of the 1930s, although he continued to visit South Africa. From 1950–3 taught Sir John Cass School of Art, where he completed a series of murals. He exhbited at the RA, RP, NEAC and widely in South Africa as well having many portrait commissions. The South African National Gallery, Cape Town holds his work, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford has his drawing of the novelist, Graham Greene.