Brush with Fate is an American drama television film debuted on February 2, 2003, on CBS.

It followed the life of an imaginary painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer as it passes through the hands of various people.

The film was based on Girl In Hyacinth Blue, the 1999 novel by author Susan Vreeland, and starred Glenn Close and Ellen Burstyn.

Cornelia Englebrecht (played by Glenn Close) is a history teacher who invites Richard to see a painting of a young girl at a table, which she believes to be a genuine Vermeer, where she tells him stories, which are portrayed as flashbacks about the people who owned the painting in the past.

In the next story, a man left a university to take a job working with the machinery used for the dikes.