Born in Pau (Basses-Pyrénées), Édouard Jean Dambourgez was a painter of genre subjects and engraver. He studied with Boulanger and Lefebvre and began exhibiting at the Paris Salon in 1880 with Visite aux caveaux de Saint-Denis. He was elected member of the Sociétaire des Artistes Français in 1883, and won an Honourable Mention in 1888.