Cameron gets a job as a wedding singer while Mitchell takes care of Lily and battles with a pigeon that entered the house.

After many mishaps, the family is barely on time for the portrait but Claire's perfectionism gets on Jay who starts a mud fight.

Claire's (Julie Bowen) perfect plans for a beautiful family portrait are pulled apart by various mishaps.

Phil (Ty Burrell) takes Alex (Ariel Winter) to a Lakers game with Gloria (Sofía Vergara) and Manny (Rico Rodriguez).

Cameron gets a job as a wedding singer and Luke (Nolan Gould) interviews Jay (Ed O'Neill) for a school project.

Claire's perfectionism finally gets to Jay and he starts a mud fight, dirtying their perfect white costumes.

This loosens everyone up, and instead of the perfect portrait the family instead take a series of fun pictures in varying positions.

While later hanging the framed picture, Claire admits that she loves the result more than any perfectly posed family portrait.

[8] In its original American broadcast, "Family Portrait" was viewed by 10.01 million viewers, receiving a 4.2 rating/11% share in the 18-49 demographic becoming the second highest-rated episode of the series history.

"[8] Alison Stern-Dunyak of BuddyTV said the best moment of the episode was "Most prominent, however, was the show's best sequence, a lengthy, nearly wordless scene that cut between Cameron singing "Ave Maria" at a wedding and Mitchell destroying their home chasing an invading pigeon.

"[4] James Poniewozik of Time stated "Portrait" set out to do what some of Modern Family's best episodes have done, notably "Fizbo," in my opinion the show's best episode overall: it moves the characters toward one central event, setting in place the elements for both hilarious disaster and a moment of catharsis.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for playing Mitchell Pritchett.