Painter and etcher of portraits and figures; teacher. He was born in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa, and 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. Having visited London during that time and become involved with Lucy Wertheim’s Twenties Group he emigrated to London in the latter part of the 1930s, although he continued to visit South Africa. From 1950–3 taught at Sir John Cass School of Art, where he completed a series of murals. Showed RA, RP, NEAC and widely in South Africa and handled many portrait commissions. South African National Gallery, Cape Town, holds his work, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, his drawing of the novelist Graham Greene.