A. Busiri Vici, Andrea Locatelli e il paesaggio del settecento, Rome, 1976

Locatelli was primarily a landscape painter. His first biographer, Niccolo Pio records in 1724 that Locatelli works for the Barberini, the Rospigliosi, the Ruspoli, and the Albani families. Diana and Calisto and Diana and Acteon (formerly Barberini Collection, Rome) are probably both early works. Initially influenced by Van Bloemen, Ghisolfi, Lemaire, and the Bamboccianti (especially Helmbreker), he later came closer to Paninis style. The paintings for the Castello di Rivoli (now in Turin) date from 1723, as does the canvas depicting Women at a Fountain (formerly Savini Collection, Viterbo). Rarely a decorative painter (he painted doors in the Palazzo Corsini, Rome), he mainly painted works on canvas of different sizes taking motives from Dughet, Van Bloemen and Salvator Rosa, but emphasising the Arcadian nature of the landscape with a wide range of light luminous colours. One of his rare city views is that of Piazza Navona, dated 1733, (Accademia, Vienna). Locatelli especially influenced foreign painters and Paolo Anesi, the last exponent of the Roman School of landscape painting. He also influenced Monaldi, who was to develop the eighteenth century genre of bambocciante which Locatelli dedicated himself to. Among his most important paintings are: Landscape with Fishermen, (Budapest), Marine (Munich, Alte Pinacothek) Landscape with a Wounded Bandit (Oxford, Ashmolean Museum), Landscape with a Ravine (Rome, Corsini) and A Ruined Bridge (Wiesbaden).

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