Jean Inglis studied at the Slade alongside Schwabe and remained in contact with the family throughout her life. She lived nearby at 70 High Street before moving to Gloucestershire. In her youth she modelled for Walter Sickert. In the First World War she served with the British Red Cross Society at Marlpit Court Hospital in Edenbridge, Kent and in the Second World War participated in the Recording Britain scheme, which commissioned artists to record the changing British landscape.

A skilled portraitist, her sitter Miranda Glanville was an eminent collector of Hampstead-related art who donated much of her collection to Burgh House.