Professional portrait painters were not viewed as anything more than artisans, and they had no chance to enjoy the adulation that was bestowed on renowned scholar-painters. Naturally, they wouldn't offer the world images of themselves.
而專門為人畫像的肖像畫家，在當時不過被視為一種匠師，完全無法享有文人畫家所受的禮遇，自然也不會替自己立像傳世。